From jws at CFA.AU.DK Fri Oct 4 02:45:30 2013 From: jws at CFA.AU.DK (Jesper Wiborg Schneider) Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 06:45:30 +0000 Subject: FW: Science Table of Contents for 04 October 2013; Vol. 342, No. 6154 In-Reply-To: <079a52cbaaf84d909a634bfee2bb2a01@1906> Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, This week?s edition of Science has a special focus on scientific communication, open access etc. ? see ToC below. The article by John Bohannon will probably stir some debate! Kind Regards -Jesper _____________________ Jesper W. Schneider Senior Researcher, PhD Aarhus University Business and Social Sciences Danish Centre for Studies in Research & Research Policy, Department of Political Science & Government Bartholins All? 7 building 1331, room 027 DK-8000 Aarhus C Denmark T: +45 8716 5241 M: jws at cfa.au.dk W: http://pure.au.dk/portal/en/jws at cfa.au.dk [bslogo_mail_equis_stor_uk] From: Science Table of Contents [mailto:alerts at aaas-science.org] Sent: 04 October 2013 03:14 To: Jesper Wiborg Schneider Subject: Science Table of Contents for 04 October 2013; Vol. 342, No. 6154 View on mobile or on web page Sponsored by Eppendorf [http://www.sciencemag.org/ads/img/Eppendorf-LOGO.jpg]Eppendorf Tubes 5.0 mL - Discover a new sample handling system Now you have a perfect option for the convenient and safe processing of sample volumes up to 5.0 mL . With the conical snap-cap design and optimized adapters the Eppendorf Tube 5.0 mL is designed to match all common processes in the lab . Intelligent and simple - systematically! ________________________________ [Science/AAAS] Science Table of Contents ________________________________ 4 October 2013 Volume 342, Issue 6154 ________________________________ In this week's issue: ________________________________ Special Section ________________________________ Introduction to Special Issue Introduction Scientific Discourse: Buckling at the Seams Richard Stone and Barbara Jasny Special Issue News The Rise of Open Access The accelerating pace of scientific publishing and the rise of open access, as depicted by xkcd.com cartoonist Randall Munroe. Who's Afraid of Peer Review? John Bohannon A spoof paper concocted by Science reveals little or no scrutiny at many open-access journals. The Seer of Science Publishing Tania Rabesandratana Vitek Tracz was ahead of the pack on open access. Now he wants to rewrite the rules of peer review. The Power of Negative Thinking Jennifer Couzin-Frankel Gaining ground in the ongoing struggle to coax researchers to share negative results. Hey, You've Got to Hide Your Work Away David Malakoff Debate is simmering over how and when to publish sensitive data. Cloak-and-Dagger Publishing David Malakoff Classified journals aim to solve a thorny problem: how to rigorously peer review and share sensitive government-funded findings that officials don't want sent to regular journals. Lock Up the Genome, Lock Down Research? Eliot Marshall Researchers say that gene patents impede data sharing and innovation; patent lawyers say there's no evidence for this. The Annual Meeting: Improving What Isn't Broken Jeffrey Mervis Annual meetings are moneymakers for most scientific societies, and scientists continue to flock to them. But as the world changes, how long can the status quo hold? What's Lost When a Meeting Goes Virtual Jeffrey Mervis This summer, NASA's Lunar Science Forum became the largest scientific gathering to embrace the new world of cyber meetings. The experience drew mixed reviews. Meetings That Flatter, but May Not Deliver Jon Cohen "Predatory" conferences?meetings, sometimes sparsely attended, that seem to come into being primarily to make money?have become a cottage industry in scientific communication. Great Presenters Jon Cohen Bonnie Bassler and Larry Smarr have a gift for enthralling audiences. They share advice on how to make powerful public presentations. Gut Instinct Jon Cohen Bonnie Bassler and Larry Smarr have a gift for enthralling audiences. They share advice on how to make powerful public presentations. Special Issue Policy Forum Scholarly Communication: Cultural Contexts, Evolving Models Diane Harley ________________________________ Research Summaries ________________________________ This Week in Science Editor summaries of this week's papers. Editors' Choice Highlights of the recent literature. ________________________________ Editorial ________________________________ Improving Scientific Communication Marcia McNutt ________________________________ News of The Week ________________________________ Around the World In science news around the world, Oak Ridge National Laboratory is cutting its staff by 11%, Mexico is experiencing a cholera outbreak, flu virologist Ron Fouchier loses a court case protesting the Dutch government's order to apply for an export permit before submitting a manuscript on H5N1 to Science, and more. Random Sample The Catlin Seaview Survey launches its Global Reef Record, with panoramic, high-resolution images of the world's coral reefs, as well as other data such as water temperatures and turbidity. Newsmakers Astronaut Cady Coleman, who advised Sandra Bullock on her role as an astronaut in the new film Gravity, sits down for a Three Q's with Science. Findings ________________________________ News & Analysis ________________________________ Science Funding U.S. Shutdown Spares an 'Essential' Few Jocelyn Kaiser et al. A U.S. government shutdown is wreaking havoc with research funding agencies and disrupting federal science projects, but a few "essential" scientists are still on the job. Climate Science The IPCC Gains Confidence in Key Forecast Richard A. Kerr The latest international climate assessment may appear to rubberstamp the same old guess of how bad global warming will get, but the science is now actually much advanced. A Stronger IPCC Report Richard A. Kerr Last week's climate assessment report substantially strengthened an already highly confident scientific consensus and took a moderate line on some contentious points. Climate Science For Researchers, IPCC Leaves a Deep Impression Eli Kintisch It's not clear how much impact a massive new report on climate change will have on policymakers, but it is clear that the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has left a deep mark on global science. Neuroscience Brain Stimulation Sparks 'Machiavellian' Choices Elizabeth Culotta A study establishes a specific brain region, the right lateral prefrontal cortex (rLPFC), as a crucial nerve center for fairness. Evolution Large-Scale Gene Comparisons Boost Tree of Life Studies Elizabeth Pennisi Building family trees is getting a lot easier with new methods that pull out hundreds of genetic markers to compare. Biomedicine NIH Seeks Better Database for Genetic Diagnosis Eliot Marshall NIH builds ClinGen?a clinical reference site for all human gene variants. ________________________________ News Focus ________________________________ The Art of Eradicating Polio Leslie Roberts The world is close to wiping out the poliovirus, but Nigeria threatens to undo it all. Muhammad Ali Pate is on a mission to change that. ________________________________ Letters ________________________________ NextGenVOICES ________________________________ Books et al. ________________________________ Physics and Biology From Matter to Self-Organizing Life Arne Traulsen Through a collection of 50 questions and associated stories, Eigen offers a wide-ranging consideration of "the physical nature of information and its role in life processes." Resources Energizing Consensus Saleem H. Ali Rejecting claims that we must choose between traditional fuels and clean energy, Levi argues both must be sought in new ways. Books Received A listing of books received at Science during the week ending 27 September 2013. ________________________________ Policy Forum ________________________________ Land Use Managing Forests and Fire in Changing Climates S. L. Stephens et al. Policy focused on fire suppression only delays the inevitable. ADVERTISEMENT [Get Instant Access] ________________________________ Perspectives ________________________________ Computer Science Future Science James A. Evans Can predicting an article's success change science? [Also see Report by Wang et al.] Plant Science Small RNA?the Secret of Noble Rot David Baulcombe Small RNA from a fungal pathogen is transferred to cells of a plant host where it silences the mRNA for defense proteins. [Also see Report by Weiberg et al.] Chemistry Turn the Molecule This Way for a Faster Reaction Michael C. Heaven Molecular beams and ultracold atom-trapping methods resolve the different reaction rates of the cis and trans conformers of a flexible organic molecule. [Also see Report by Chang et al.] Epidemiology Social Factors in Epidemiology Chris T. Bauch and Alison P. Galvani The coupling of social and biological contagion in human populations can have positive or negative outcomes. [Also see Perspective by Kahan] History of Science Public Science 2.0?Back to the Future Carsten K?nneker and Beatrice Lugger Modern dialog formats in science communication are reminiscent of a culture of public discourse and involvement in past centuries. Plant Science Fine-Tuning Photosynthesis Jean-David Rochaix A potassium channel helps to fine-tune the photosynthetic machinery of plants to changes in environmental conditions. [Also see Report by Carraretto et al.] Physiology A Looser Clock to Cure Jet Lag Michael H. Hastings A neuropeptide that signals in the brain's master circadian clock may be the key to overcoming the symptoms of malaise associated with jet lag. [Also see Research Article by Yamaguchi et al.] Social Science A Risky Science Communication Environment for Vaccines Dan M. Kahan Neglecting the science of science communication puts the value of decision-relevant science at risk. [Also see Perspective by Bauch and Galvani] ________________________________ Research Articles ________________________________ Integrative Annotation of Variants from 1092 Humans: Application to Cancer Genomics Ekta Khurana et al. Regions under strong selection in the human genome identify noncoding regulatory elements with possible roles in disease. Mice Genetically Deficient in Vasopressin V1a and V1b Receptors Are Resistant to Jet Lag Yoshiaki Yamaguchi et al. In mice, the pace of recovery from jet lag is partly determined by vasopressin signaling in a certain region of the brain. [Also see Perspective by Hastings] ________________________________ Reports ________________________________ Nitrogen Isotopic Composition and Density of the Archean Atmosphere Bernard Marty et al. Earth?s Archean atmosphere contained roughly as much nitrogen between 3.0 and 3.5 billion years ago as it does today. Following Gene Duplication, Paralog Interference Constrains Transcriptional Circuit Evolution Christopher R. Baker et al. Interactions between recent gene duplicates may create functional interference, selecting for regulatory complexity. Surviving in a Marine Desert: The Sponge Loop Retains Resources Within Coral Reefs Jasper M. de Goeij et al. Sponges take up dissolved organic matter and convert it into consumable cellular material. Allele-Specific Silencing of Mutant Myh6 Transcripts in Mice Suppresses Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Jianming Jiang et al. In a mouse model, heart disease can be delayed by a therapy that prevents expression of the disease-causing mutation. A Thylakoid-Located Two-Pore K+ Channel Controls Photosynthetic Light Utilization in Plants Luca Carraretto et al. The electrochemical gradient used to make adenosine triphosphate in photosynthesis is modulated by potassium counterflow. [Also see Perspective by Rochaix] Fungal Small RNAs Suppress Plant Immunity by Hijacking Host RNA Interference Pathways Arne Weiberg et al. A pathogenic fungus delivers small RNA molecules to disable gene regulatory systems in the target plant. [Also see Perspective by Baulcombe] Crystal Structure of Na+, K+-ATPase in the Na+-Bound State Maria Nyblom et al. The location of three bound sodium ions and the mechanism of sodium release in a key plasma membrane ion pump are revealed. Quantifying Long-Term Scientific Impact Dashun Wang et al. Early citation history can be used to model the total number of citations a paper will receive and to compare journals. [Also see Perspective by Evans] Selective Gas Transport Through Few-Layered Graphene and Graphene Oxide Membranes Hyo Won Kim et al. Stacked graphene and graphene oxide membranes prepared with gas flow channels exhibit tunable gas separation performance. Ultrathin, Molecular-Sieving Graphene Oxide Membranes for Selective Hydrogen Separation Hang Li et al. Ultrathin graphene oxide membranes show enhanced separation selectivity for hydrogen gas. Specific Chemical Reactivities of Spatially Separated 3-Aminophenol Conformers with Cold Ca+ Ions Yuan-Pin Chang et al. A molecular beam technique measures the different reactivities of a compound?s distinct rotational conformations. [Also see Perspective by Heaven] ________________________________ Podcast ________________________________ Science Podcast: 4 October Show Listen to a special show dedicated to science communication in which we explore pressures and predators. ________________________________ New Products ________________________________ New Products A weekly roundup of information on newly offered instrumentation, apparatus, and laboratory materials of potential interest to researchers. ________________________________ From the AAAS Office of Publishing and Member Services ________________________________ Science Webinar Series Winning the Translational Race: Making Good Choices in Biomarker Assay Development for the Clinic Richard Kennedy and James A. Timmons [Science - Cover] About the Cover Also Online: [http://www.sciencemag.org/site/icons_shared/external/bullet.gif] Science Express [http://www.sciencemag.org/site/icons_shared/external/bullet.gif] Daily News [http://www.sciencemag.org/site/icons_shared/external/bullet.gif] Science Careers [http://www.sciencemag.org/site/icons_shared/external/bullet.gif] Science Signaling [http://www.sciencemag.org/site/icons_shared/external/bullet.gif] Science Translational Medicine Recommend to Your Library Podcast Listen to a special show dedicated to science communication in which we explore pressures and predators. Listen now. Video Portal Watch flying insect-like robots, flowers communicating with bees and more at the Science Video Portal. Watch now. [ScienceNow - Up to the minute news from Science] Sex Before the Storm Source of Mysterious Medieval Eruption Identified Controversial Proposal for Wolf Conservation Gets a Reboot NIH Swears Off Science Education ADVERTISEMENT [http://stke.sciencemag.org/ads/img/image_3.png] ________________________________ JOBS OF THE WEEK Jefferson Science Fellowship The National Academies Washington, DC http://jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/319004/jefferson-science-fellowship/ Faculty Position in Immunology University of Houston Houston, TX http://jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/319140/faculty-position-in-immunology/ ______________ Sponsored by Eppendorf [http://www.sciencemag.org/ads/img/Eppendorf-LOGO.jpg]Eppendorf Tubes 5.0 mL - Discover a new sample handling system Now you have a perfect option for the convenient and safe processing of sample volumes up to 5.0 mL . With the conical snap-cap design and optimized adapters the Eppendorf Tube 5.0 mL is designed to match all common processes in the lab . 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The article by John Bohannon will probably stir some debate! Kind Regards -Jesper _____________________ Jesper W. Schneider Senior Researcher, PhD Aarhus University Business and Social Sciences Danish Centre for Studies in Research & Research Policy, Department of Political Science & Government Bartholins All? 7 building 1331, room 027 DK-8000 Aarhus C Denmark T: +45 8716 5241 M: jws at cfa.au.dk W: http://pure.au.dk/portal/en/jws at cfa.au.dk [bslogo_mail_equis_stor_uk] From: Science Table of Contents [mailto:alerts at aaas-science.org] Sent: 04 October 2013 03:14 To: Jesper Wiborg Schneider Subject: Science Table of Contents for 04 October 2013; Vol. 342, No. 6154 View on mobile or on web page Sponsored by Eppendorf [http://www.sciencemag.org/ads/img/Eppendorf-LOGO.jpg]Eppendorf Tubes 5.0 mL - Discover a new sample handling system Now you have a perfect option for the convenient and safe processing of sample volumes up to 5.0 mL . With the conical snap-cap design and optimized adapters the Eppendorf Tube 5.0 mL is designed to match all common processes in the lab . Intelligent and simple - systematically! ________________________________ [Science/AAAS] Science Table of Contents ________________________________ 4 October 2013 Volume 342, Issue 6154 ________________________________ In this week's issue: ________________________________ Special Section ________________________________ Introduction to Special Issue Introduction Scientific Discourse: Buckling at the Seams Richard Stone and Barbara Jasny Special Issue News The Rise of Open Access The accelerating pace of scientific publishing and the rise of open access, as depicted by xkcd.com cartoonist Randall Munroe. Who's Afraid of Peer Review? John Bohannon A spoof paper concocted by Science reveals little or no scrutiny at many open-access journals. The Seer of Science Publishing Tania Rabesandratana Vitek Tracz was ahead of the pack on open access. Now he wants to rewrite the rules of peer review. The Power of Negative Thinking Jennifer Couzin-Frankel Gaining ground in the ongoing struggle to coax researchers to share negative results. Hey, You've Got to Hide Your Work Away David Malakoff Debate is simmering over how and when to publish sensitive data. Cloak-and-Dagger Publishing David Malakoff Classified journals aim to solve a thorny problem: how to rigorously peer review and share sensitive government-funded findings that officials don't want sent to regular journals. Lock Up the Genome, Lock Down Research? Eliot Marshall Researchers say that gene patents impede data sharing and innovation; patent lawyers say there's no evidence for this. The Annual Meeting: Improving What Isn't Broken Jeffrey Mervis Annual meetings are moneymakers for most scientific societies, and scientists continue to flock to them. But as the world changes, how long can the status quo hold? What's Lost When a Meeting Goes Virtual Jeffrey Mervis This summer, NASA's Lunar Science Forum became the largest scientific gathering to embrace the new world of cyber meetings. The experience drew mixed reviews. Meetings That Flatter, but May Not Deliver Jon Cohen "Predatory" conferences?meetings, sometimes sparsely attended, that seem to come into being primarily to make money?have become a cottage industry in scientific communication. Great Presenters Jon Cohen Bonnie Bassler and Larry Smarr have a gift for enthralling audiences. They share advice on how to make powerful public presentations. Gut Instinct Jon Cohen Bonnie Bassler and Larry Smarr have a gift for enthralling audiences. They share advice on how to make powerful public presentations. Special Issue Policy Forum Scholarly Communication: Cultural Contexts, Evolving Models Diane Harley ________________________________ Research Summaries ________________________________ This Week in Science Editor summaries of this week's papers. Editors' Choice Highlights of the recent literature. ________________________________ Editorial ________________________________ Improving Scientific Communication Marcia McNutt ________________________________ News of The Week ________________________________ Around the World In science news around the world, Oak Ridge National Laboratory is cutting its staff by 11%, Mexico is experiencing a cholera outbreak, flu virologist Ron Fouchier loses a court case protesting the Dutch government's order to apply for an export permit before submitting a manuscript on H5N1 to Science, and more. Random Sample The Catlin Seaview Survey launches its Global Reef Record, with panoramic, high-resolution images of the world's coral reefs, as well as other data such as water temperatures and turbidity. Newsmakers Astronaut Cady Coleman, who advised Sandra Bullock on her role as an astronaut in the new film Gravity, sits down for a Three Q's with Science. Findings ________________________________ News & Analysis ________________________________ Science Funding U.S. Shutdown Spares an 'Essential' Few Jocelyn Kaiser et al. A U.S. government shutdown is wreaking havoc with research funding agencies and disrupting federal science projects, but a few "essential" scientists are still on the job. Climate Science The IPCC Gains Confidence in Key Forecast Richard A. Kerr The latest international climate assessment may appear to rubberstamp the same old guess of how bad global warming will get, but the science is now actually much advanced. A Stronger IPCC Report Richard A. Kerr Last week's climate assessment report substantially strengthened an already highly confident scientific consensus and took a moderate line on some contentious points. Climate Science For Researchers, IPCC Leaves a Deep Impression Eli Kintisch It's not clear how much impact a massive new report on climate change will have on policymakers, but it is clear that the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has left a deep mark on global science. Neuroscience Brain Stimulation Sparks 'Machiavellian' Choices Elizabeth Culotta A study establishes a specific brain region, the right lateral prefrontal cortex (rLPFC), as a crucial nerve center for fairness. Evolution Large-Scale Gene Comparisons Boost Tree of Life Studies Elizabeth Pennisi Building family trees is getting a lot easier with new methods that pull out hundreds of genetic markers to compare. Biomedicine NIH Seeks Better Database for Genetic Diagnosis Eliot Marshall NIH builds ClinGen?a clinical reference site for all human gene variants. ________________________________ News Focus ________________________________ The Art of Eradicating Polio Leslie Roberts The world is close to wiping out the poliovirus, but Nigeria threatens to undo it all. Muhammad Ali Pate is on a mission to change that. ________________________________ Letters ________________________________ NextGenVOICES ________________________________ Books et al. ________________________________ Physics and Biology From Matter to Self-Organizing Life Arne Traulsen Through a collection of 50 questions and associated stories, Eigen offers a wide-ranging consideration of "the physical nature of information and its role in life processes." Resources Energizing Consensus Saleem H. Ali Rejecting claims that we must choose between traditional fuels and clean energy, Levi argues both must be sought in new ways. Books Received A listing of books received at Science during the week ending 27 September 2013. ________________________________ Policy Forum ________________________________ Land Use Managing Forests and Fire in Changing Climates S. L. Stephens et al. Policy focused on fire suppression only delays the inevitable. ADVERTISEMENT [Get Instant Access] ________________________________ Perspectives ________________________________ Computer Science Future Science James A. Evans Can predicting an article's success change science? [Also see Report by Wang et al.] Plant Science Small RNA?the Secret of Noble Rot David Baulcombe Small RNA from a fungal pathogen is transferred to cells of a plant host where it silences the mRNA for defense proteins. [Also see Report by Weiberg et al.] Chemistry Turn the Molecule This Way for a Faster Reaction Michael C. Heaven Molecular beams and ultracold atom-trapping methods resolve the different reaction rates of the cis and trans conformers of a flexible organic molecule. [Also see Report by Chang et al.] Epidemiology Social Factors in Epidemiology Chris T. Bauch and Alison P. Galvani The coupling of social and biological contagion in human populations can have positive or negative outcomes. [Also see Perspective by Kahan] History of Science Public Science 2.0?Back to the Future Carsten K?nneker and Beatrice Lugger Modern dialog formats in science communication are reminiscent of a culture of public discourse and involvement in past centuries. Plant Science Fine-Tuning Photosynthesis Jean-David Rochaix A potassium channel helps to fine-tune the photosynthetic machinery of plants to changes in environmental conditions. [Also see Report by Carraretto et al.] Physiology A Looser Clock to Cure Jet Lag Michael H. Hastings A neuropeptide that signals in the brain's master circadian clock may be the key to overcoming the symptoms of malaise associated with jet lag. [Also see Research Article by Yamaguchi et al.] Social Science A Risky Science Communication Environment for Vaccines Dan M. Kahan Neglecting the science of science communication puts the value of decision-relevant science at risk. [Also see Perspective by Bauch and Galvani] ________________________________ Research Articles ________________________________ Integrative Annotation of Variants from 1092 Humans: Application to Cancer Genomics Ekta Khurana et al. Regions under strong selection in the human genome identify noncoding regulatory elements with possible roles in disease. Mice Genetically Deficient in Vasopressin V1a and V1b Receptors Are Resistant to Jet Lag Yoshiaki Yamaguchi et al. In mice, the pace of recovery from jet lag is partly determined by vasopressin signaling in a certain region of the brain. [Also see Perspective by Hastings] ________________________________ Reports ________________________________ Nitrogen Isotopic Composition and Density of the Archean Atmosphere Bernard Marty et al. Earth?s Archean atmosphere contained roughly as much nitrogen between 3.0 and 3.5 billion years ago as it does today. Following Gene Duplication, Paralog Interference Constrains Transcriptional Circuit Evolution Christopher R. Baker et al. Interactions between recent gene duplicates may create functional interference, selecting for regulatory complexity. Surviving in a Marine Desert: The Sponge Loop Retains Resources Within Coral Reefs Jasper M. de Goeij et al. Sponges take up dissolved organic matter and convert it into consumable cellular material. Allele-Specific Silencing of Mutant Myh6 Transcripts in Mice Suppresses Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Jianming Jiang et al. In a mouse model, heart disease can be delayed by a therapy that prevents expression of the disease-causing mutation. A Thylakoid-Located Two-Pore K+ Channel Controls Photosynthetic Light Utilization in Plants Luca Carraretto et al. The electrochemical gradient used to make adenosine triphosphate in photosynthesis is modulated by potassium counterflow. [Also see Perspective by Rochaix] Fungal Small RNAs Suppress Plant Immunity by Hijacking Host RNA Interference Pathways Arne Weiberg et al. A pathogenic fungus delivers small RNA molecules to disable gene regulatory systems in the target plant. [Also see Perspective by Baulcombe] Crystal Structure of Na+, K+-ATPase in the Na+-Bound State Maria Nyblom et al. The location of three bound sodium ions and the mechanism of sodium release in a key plasma membrane ion pump are revealed. Quantifying Long-Term Scientific Impact Dashun Wang et al. Early citation history can be used to model the total number of citations a paper will receive and to compare journals. [Also see Perspective by Evans] Selective Gas Transport Through Few-Layered Graphene and Graphene Oxide Membranes Hyo Won Kim et al. Stacked graphene and graphene oxide membranes prepared with gas flow channels exhibit tunable gas separation performance. Ultrathin, Molecular-Sieving Graphene Oxide Membranes for Selective Hydrogen Separation Hang Li et al. Ultrathin graphene oxide membranes show enhanced separation selectivity for hydrogen gas. Specific Chemical Reactivities of Spatially Separated 3-Aminophenol Conformers with Cold Ca+ Ions Yuan-Pin Chang et al. A molecular beam technique measures the different reactivities of a compound?s distinct rotational conformations. [Also see Perspective by Heaven] ________________________________ Podcast ________________________________ Science Podcast: 4 October Show Listen to a special show dedicated to science communication in which we explore pressures and predators. ________________________________ New Products ________________________________ New Products A weekly roundup of information on newly offered instrumentation, apparatus, and laboratory materials of potential interest to researchers. ________________________________ From the AAAS Office of Publishing and Member Services ________________________________ Science Webinar Series Winning the Translational Race: Making Good Choices in Biomarker Assay Development for the Clinic Richard Kennedy and James A. Timmons [Science - Cover] About the Cover Also Online: [http://www.sciencemag.org/site/icons_shared/external/bullet.gif] Science Express [http://www.sciencemag.org/site/icons_shared/external/bullet.gif] Daily News [http://www.sciencemag.org/site/icons_shared/external/bullet.gif] Science Careers [http://www.sciencemag.org/site/icons_shared/external/bullet.gif] Science Signaling [http://www.sciencemag.org/site/icons_shared/external/bullet.gif] Science Translational Medicine Recommend to Your Library Podcast Listen to a special show dedicated to science communication in which we explore pressures and predators. Listen now. Video Portal Watch flying insect-like robots, flowers communicating with bees and more at the Science Video Portal. Watch now. [ScienceNow - Up to the minute news from Science] Sex Before the Storm Source of Mysterious Medieval Eruption Identified Controversial Proposal for Wolf Conservation Gets a Reboot NIH Swears Off Science Education ADVERTISEMENT [http://stke.sciencemag.org/ads/img/image_3.png] ________________________________ JOBS OF THE WEEK Jefferson Science Fellowship The National Academies Washington, DC http://jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/319004/jefferson-science-fellowship/ Faculty Position in Immunology University of Houston Houston, TX http://jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/319140/faculty-position-in-immunology/ ______________ Sponsored by Eppendorf [http://www.sciencemag.org/ads/img/Eppendorf-LOGO.jpg]Eppendorf Tubes 5.0 mL - Discover a new sample handling system Now you have a perfect option for the convenient and safe processing of sample volumes up to 5.0 mL . With the conical snap-cap design and optimized adapters the Eppendorf Tube 5.0 mL is designed to match all common processes in the lab . 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URL: From amsciforum at GMAIL.COM Fri Oct 4 08:14:45 2013 From: amsciforum at GMAIL.COM (Stevan Harnad) Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 08:14:45 -0400 Subject: The Science "Sting" and Pre-Green Fee-Based Fool's Gold vs. Post-Green No-Fault Fair-Gold Message-ID: Comment on: Bohannon, John (2013) Who's Afraid of Peer Review? *Science* 342 (6154) 60-65 To show that the bogus-standards effect is specific to Open Access (OA) journals would of course require submitting also to subscription journals (perhaps equated for age and impact factor) to see what happens. But it is likely that the outcome would still be a higher proportion of acceptances by the OA journals. The reason in simple: Fee-based OA publishing (fee-based "Gold OA") is premature, as are plans by universities and research funders to pay its costs: Funds are short and 80% of journals (including virtually all the top, "must-have" journals) are still subscription-based, thereby tying up the potential funds to pay for fee-based Gold OA. The asking price for Gold OA is still arbitrary and high. And there is very, very legitimate concern that paying to publish may inflate acceptance rates and lower quality standards (as the Science sting shows). What is needed now is for universities and funders to mandate OA self-archiving (of authors' final peer-reviewed drafts, immediately upon acceptance for publication) in their institutional OA repositories, free for all online ("Green OA"). That will provide immediate OA. And if and when universal Green OA should go on to make subscriptions unsustainable (because users are satisfied with just the Green OA versions), that will in turn induce journals to cut costs (print edition, online edition), offload access-provision and archiving onto the global network of Green OA , downsize to just providing the service of peer review alone, and convert to the Gold OA cost-recovery model. Meanwhile, the subscription cancellations will have released the funds to pay these residual service costs. The natural way to charge for the service of peer review then will be on a "no-fault basis," with the author's institution or funder paying for each round of refereeing, *regardless of outcome (acceptance, revision/re-refereeing, or rejection)*. This will minimize cost while protecting against inflated acceptance rates and decline in quality standards. That post-Green, no-fault Gold will be Fair Gold. Today's pre-Green (fee-based) Gold is Fool's Gold. None of this applies to no-fee Gold. Obviously, as Peter Suber and others have correctly pointed out, none of this applies to the many Gold OA journals that are not fee-based (i.e., do not charge the author for publication, but continue to rely instead of subscriptions, subsidies, or voluntarism). Hence it is not fair to tar all Gold OA with that brush. Nor is it fair to assume -- without testing it -- that non-OA journals would have come out unscathed, if they had been included in the sting. But the basic outcome is probably still solid: Fee-based Gold OA has provided an irresistible opportunity to create junk journals and dupe authors into feeding their publish-or-perish needs via pay-to-publish under the guise of fulfilling the growing clamour for OA: Publishing in a reputable, established journal and self-archiving the refereed draft would have accomplished the very same purpose, while continuing to meet the peer-review quality standards for which the journal has a track record -- and without paying an extra penny. But the most important message is that OA is not identical with Gold OA (fee-based or not), and hence conclusions about peer-review standards of fee-based Gold OA journals and not conclusions about the peer-review standards of OA -- which, with Green OA, are identical to those of non-OA. For some peer-review stings of non-OA journals, see below: Peters, D. P., & Ceci, S. J. (1982). Peer-review practices of psychological journals: The fate of published articles, submitted again. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 5(2), 187-195. Harnad, S. R. (Ed.). (1982). Peer commentary on peer review: A case study in scientific quality control (Vol. 5, No. 2). Cambridge University Press Harnad, S. (1998/2000/2004) The invisible hand of peer review. Nature [online] (5 Nov. 1998), Exploit Interactive 5 (2000): and in Shatz, B. (2004) (ed.) Peer Review: A Critical Inquiry. Rowland & Littlefield. Pp. 235-242. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Colin_Paul_Gloster at ACM.ORG Sun Oct 6 09:10:05 2013 From: Colin_Paul_Gloster at ACM.ORG (Paul Colin de Gloucester) Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2013 15:10:05 +0200 Subject: The Science "Sting" and Pre-Green Fee-Based Fool's Gold vs. Post-Green No-Fault Fair-Gold In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On October 4th, 2013, Stevan Harnad sent: |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| |"Comment on: Bohannon, John (2013) Who's Afraid of Peer Review? Science 342 | |(6154) 60-65 | | | | | |[. . .] | | | |The natural way to charge for the service of peer review then will be on a | |"no-fault basis," with the author's institution or funder paying for each | |round of refereeing, *regardless of outcome (acceptance, | |revision/re-refereeing, or rejection)*. This will minimize cost while | |protecting against inflated acceptance rates and decline in quality | |standards." | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| The cost of refereeing would be more than nothing, and many journals do not pay referees. |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| |"[. . .] | | | |For some peer-review stings of non-OA journals, see below: | | | | | |Peters, D. P., & Ceci, S. J. (1982). Peer-review practices of psychological | |journals: The fate of published articles, submitted again. Behavioral and | |Brain Sciences, 5(2), 187-195. | | | | | |Harnad, S. R. (Ed.). (1982). Peer commentary on peer review: A case study in| |scientific quality control (Vol. 5, No. 2). Cambridge University Press | | | | | |Harnad, S. (1998/2000/2004) The invisible hand of peer review. Nature | |[online] (5 Nov. 1998), Exploit Interactive 5 (2000): and in Shatz, B. | |(2004) (ed.) Peer Review: A Critical Inquiry. Rowland & Littlefield. Pp. | |235-242." | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| More stings of refereeing of non-open-access journals: Seidl, C., & Schmidt, U., & Gr?sche, P. (2005). The performance of peer review and a beauty contest of referee processes of economics journals. Estudios de Econom?a Aplicada, 23(3): 505-551, HTTP://DialNet.UniRioja.Es/descarga/articulo/1394347.pdf de Gloucester, P. C. (2013). Referees Often Miss Obvious Errors in Computer and Electronic Publications. Accountability in Research: Policies and Quality Assurance, 20(3), 143-166. Also see: Labb?, C., & Labb?, D. (2013). Duplicate and fake publications in the scientific literature: How many SCIgen papers in computer science? Scientometrics, 94(1): 379-396. Newton, D. P. (2010). Quality and Peer Review of Research: An Adjudicating Role for Editors. Accountability in Research: Policies and Quality Assurance, 17(3), 130-145, this is available as open access: WWW.TandFonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08989621003791945#tabModule Regards, Paul Colin de Gloucester From amsciforum at GMAIL.COM Sun Oct 6 09:32:07 2013 From: amsciforum at GMAIL.COM (Stevan Harnad) Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2013 09:32:07 -0400 Subject: The Science "Sting" and Pre-Green Fee-Based Fool's Gold vs. Post-Green No-Fault Fair-Gold In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Paul Colin de Gloucester < Colin_Paul_Gloster at acm.org> wrote: *SH:* The natural way to charge for the service of peer review then will be > on a "no-fault basis," with the author's institution or funder paying for > each round of refereeing, *regardless of outcome (acceptance, > revision/re-refereeing, or rejection)*. This will minimize cost > while protecting against inflated acceptance rates and decline in > quality standards." > > *CPG:* The cost of refereeing would be more than nothing, and many > journals do not pay referees. > I didn't say it would be nothing; I said it would be minimal (compared to subscription revenues, per article: $1000-5000+). I also did not say referees would be or should be paid: it is the management of the refereeing process (picking referees and adjudicating referee reports and revisions) that I estimated would cost about $200 per round of no-fault refereeing. Many thanks for the references to the non-OA stings, below. Stevan Harnad > More stings of refereeing of non-open-access journals: > > Seidl, C., & Schmidt, U., & Gr?sche, P. (2005). The performance of peer > review and a beauty contest of referee processes of economics journals. > Estudios de Econom?a Aplicada, 23(3): 505-551, > HTTP://DialNet.UniRioja.Es/**descarga/articulo/1394347.pdf > > de Gloucester, P. C. (2013). Referees Often Miss Obvious Errors in > Computer and Electronic Publications. Accountability in Research: > Policies and Quality Assurance, 20(3), 143-166. > > Also see: > > Labb?, C., & Labb?, D. (2013). Duplicate and fake publications in the > scientific literature: How many SCIgen papers in computer science? > Scientometrics, 94(1): 379-396. > > Newton, D. P. (2010). Quality and Peer Review of Research: An > Adjudicating Role for Editors. Accountability in Research: Policies > and Quality Assurance, 17(3), 130-145, this is available as open > access: > WWW.TandFonline.com/doi/full/**10.1080/08989621003791945#**tabModule > > Regards, > Paul Colin de Gloucester -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Bensman) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 10:09:12 -0400 Subject: CWTS Journal Indicators Message-ID: Sylvan, I am sorry for the late response, but I am just putting my life back in order after being almost murdered by my cat, Chico, a.k.a., Killer Kat. The logic of complex systems seems to indicate that scientometric measures cannot be based on the mean like the impact factor or any other measure of central tendency representative of the population. That is what is meant by "scale free"--there is no measure of central tendency representative of the population. All scientometric measures-- it seems--should be based on the the characteristics of the tail or right asymptote. However, we are finding that this differs wildly depending on the structure of the field. There seems to be no one shoe fits all. However, this does not seem to be the case empirically. Ordinal rankings of journals by impact factor are remarkably stable over time. I proved this in my article on Garfield and the impact factor posted on Gene's site (see pp. 66-68): http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/bensman/bensmanegif22007.pdf However, the real proof of this was done by Sasha Pudovkin in our article: Bensman, Stephen J., Smolinsky, Lawrence J., and Pudovkin, Alexander I. ?Mean Citation Rate per Article in Mathematics Journals: Differences from the Scientific Model,? Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 61 (July 2010), 1440-1463. Pudovkin did not like my article, because I suggested that ordinal ranking of journals by impact factors where interval differences were only one thousandth had to be wildy unstable over time. Pudovkin criticized me for reducing the lower impact factor rankings to just "statistical noise." So I challenged him to prove otherwise by testing the rankings where interval separations were only in the thousandths Here is the summary of his findings: "To settle the dispute, it was decided to test the stability of impact factor ranks at the low end of the range for two distributions, Physics, Multidisciplinary, and Mathematics. These two distributions were deliberately selected because the first tested to be negative binomial, and therefore nonrandom, whereas the second tested to binomial, and therefore random. Pudovkin implemented the test. For his samples he selected the 58 journals in Physics, Multidisciplinary category with impact factors lower than 3.400 in 2008 and the 189 journals in the Mathematics category with impact factors below 1.150 in 2008. Of the 58 Physics, Multidisciplinary, titles, 50 were also ranked by impact factor in 2003, and, of the 189 Mathematics journals, 143 were also ranked by impact factor in 2003. For both sets of journals, Pudovkin converted both their 2003 and 2008 impact factor rankings from the ratio to the ordinal scale and calculated their Spearman rank order correlation coefficient or rho. The Physics, Multidisciplinary, rho was 0.86, whereas the Mathematics rho was 0.65 and 0.68 with the elimination of an extreme outlier. Due to these results, Pudovkin (pers. commun. Dec. 9, 2009) declared, ?Thus, your point that the variation of IF values in the lower range of values is due only to sampling error is certainly wrong!? He added that 5 years is enough time for a journal to change its scope or for a science field to change its research priorities.." p. 1460. I was so impressed that I asked him to be third author. I recently refereed an article for Scientometrics, where a Spanish physicist proved that the third decimal place in the impact factor is mathematically necessary. I just suggested that he merge his paper with Pudovkin's findings, but I have not heard whether he has done this, but I hope that he has. >From the above--despite your complex system theories--the empirical evidence is that impact factor ordinal rankings are remarkably stable over time and therefore must be based on some powerful probability of being so. This should send you back to the drawing board, where a recent JASIST referee sent me for my complex system musings in respect to Google Scholar. Cheers to you, Sylvan, Stephen J. Bensman, Ph.D. LSU Libraries Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 08:43:55 -0600, Sylvan Katz wrote: >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > >Nees Jan > >> the citation distributions underlying the SNIP calculation. In general, >> however, citation distributions do not exactly follow a power law (I am >> assuming that this is what you mean by a ?scaling distribution?), >> although their tail may have power law properties, at least in an >> approximate sense. Given the skewed nature of citation distributions, I > >In a scaling or power law distribution only the tail of the distribution >exhibits a power law. The magnitude of the scaling exponent of the tail >has an impact on whether or not the distribution can be characterized by >its mean and variance. > >When the exponent is greater than or equal to 3.0 the distribution can >be characterized by it mean and variance. However, when the exponent is >less than 3.0 the variance become infinite, the central limit theorem >(CLT) no longer applies and the distribution can no longer be >characterized by its mean and variance. This has important implication >for any average based measure. Newman explained this as follows in a >sigmetrics posting two years ago > >https://listserv.utk.edu/cgi-bin/wa? A2=ind1109&L=sigmetrics&T=0&F=&S=&X=1CF66970C633426B19&P=36 93 > >"for the Central Limit Theorem to be applicable, and hence for the mean >to thee valid, the distribution has to fall in the "domain of attraction >of the Gaussian distribution". As others have pointed out, the Pareto >or power-law distribution to which the citation distribution is believed >to approximate, does not fall in this domain of attraction if its >exponent is less than 3. Thus, the theorem is not wrong, but it's not >applicable here." > >"What does this mean in practice? Of course one can always calculate a >mean number of citations for a given data sample. But if one calculates >such means for different samples -- even samples drawn from the exact >same underlying distribution -- one will get wildly different answers. >Indeed, it can be shown that the values of the mean themselves follow a >power law under these circumstances, and hence can themselves vary over >orders of magnitude." > >For a detailed explanation see Newman, M. E. J. (2005). Power laws, >Pareto distributions and Zipf?s law. Contemporary Physics, 46(5), >323-351. See section 3.2. > >For an examples of how this effects average based bibliometric >indicators see my keynote presentation at STI 2012 "Scale Independent >Measures: Theory and Practice" ( >http://sticonference.org/index.php?page=proc ) > >> when average-based measures such as SNIP are complemented with stability >> intervals, I believe that this offers a sufficiently robust approach to >> deal with the skewed nature of citation distributions. > >When using average-based indicators based it is important to know the >distribution of the underlying primary measures. If the distribution is >a scaling distribution with an exponent less than 3.0 then while the >average make be calculable it maybe meaningless as the variance maybe >infinite since central limit theorem would no long applies. > >It seems to me that for any bibliometric indicator based on averages to >be robust the underlying distributions of the primary measures need to >be shown to fall within the Gaussian domain. And since the exponent of a >citation distribution can be greater than, less than or equal to 3.0 >then the distribution likely has to be determined each time the >indicator is calculated since in some instances the distribution will >fall within a Gaussian distribution and at other times it may be a >Pareto distribution with a meaningless average. > >It would useful to know if the SNIP indicator shows any of these >sensitivities and hence it would be useful to know if the distribution >of citations in a given year to papers in the preceding three years >scales and if it does can the exponent be less than 3.0 > >Cheers >Sylvan From notsjb at LSU.EDU Tue Oct 8 12:30:27 2013 From: notsjb at LSU.EDU (Stephen J Bensman) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 16:30:27 +0000 Subject: CWTS Journal Indicators Message-ID: From: Stephen J Bensman Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2013 11:28 AM To: 'j.s.katz at sussex.ac.uk' Subject: RE: [SIGMETRICS] CWTS Journal Indicators Sylvan, I have read and am reading all that you suggested below. What has happened to me is that I stumbled into a scientific revolution that I did not know about--complex systems, and this revolution is encompassing informetrics. I am very interested in the Yule-Simon distribution, because I am interested in Google Scholar. What I call "Yule Simon" model and you call the power- law model is of interest to me, because it is an accepted model for both the structure of the Web and scientometric laws. Therefore it is a perfect model to serve as a foil for cross-disciplinary comparisons to determine how well different disciplines approximate this model. It really reveals the differences between the structure of disciplines. For example, we find that economics may approximate what Clauset-Shalizi-Newman in their SIAM article call "the power-law +cut-off" because Google citations concentrate on the key book of economist Nobelists, shooting it far to the right and distorting the distribution, whereas mathematics cannot come anywhere near the power-law model due to the insularity of the subfields. Mathematicians cannot communicate with each other across sub-disciplines and have difficulty in farting out a right asymptote at all (pardon my Shakespearian language). Perhaps you can help me. I need to make the tests recommended by Clauset-Shalizi-Newman in their SIAM article. That way I can go from r^2 approximations to "null-and-alternate hypotheses." I cannot handle their tests and need a computer program that can do this for me--power-law testing for dummies. We have found that, if you have a power-law + cut-off, it gives false, ridiculous readings on the r^2 approximations. We find that if you truncate the book, the model does more approach a power-law model. I am working with some mathematicians on this, and I hope that they can handle this, but mathematicians are not physicists. Perhaps they can help you with your problem. If you want, I can send you my binomial analysis of the Clauset-Shalizi-Newman findings. For example, discrete or counting distributions are more likely than continuous distributions to approximate the power-law model. Hopefully, if I can survive Chico, I may be able to survive this. As Nietzsche once said, "What does not kill me, makes me stronger." Stephen J Bensman LSU Libraries Lousiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 -----Original Message----- From: Sylvan Katz [mailto:j.s.katz at sussex.ac.uk] Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2013 10:10 AM To: Stephen J Bensman Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] CWTS Journal Indicators Stephen PLEASE NOTE -- I am reply off the reflector. My concern was not with the Journal Impact Factor it was with SNIP. > That is what is meant by "scale free"--there is no measure of central > tendency representative of the population. All scientometric > measures-- it seems--should be based on the the characteristics of the > tail or right asymptote. However, we are finding that this differs > wildly depending on the structure of the field. There seems to be no one shoe fits all. Perhaps you have not read Newman's articles (Power laws, Pareto distributions and Zipf's law. Contemporary Physics, 46(5), 323-351. ). In particular section See section 3.2. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/courses/2006/cmplxsys899/powerlaws.pdf or perhaps you have not seen my paper that accompanied my keynote speach "Scale-independent measures: theory and practice". It shows that power law distributions can occur in any field or subfield. While it may not be a power law at one point in time it may be at another point in time. This analysis was done using the Gold standard technique for determining if a distribution is a power law as given in the article Clauset, A., Shalizi, C. S., & Newman, M. E. J. (2009). Power-law distributions in empirical data. SIAM Review, 51(4), 661-703. http://sticonference.org/index.php?page=proc > However, this does not seem to be the case empirically. Ordinal > rankings of journals by impact factor are remarkably stable over time. > I proved this in my article on Garfield and the impact factor posted > on Gene's site (see pp. 66-68): This is a ranking not an analysis of the underlying distribution. Stability over time could mean that the same error occurs again and again i.e. means are calculated for distributions that have an infinite variance and over this error is stable. Unfortunately an analysis of rankings will not tell you anything about the citation distribution. The distribution of the primary measures such as citation distributions needs to be performed before one can assert that the CLT holds. Nees did make a good point about truncated power law distribution with exponents less than 3.0 perhaps have a defined variance. I am not a mathematician so I cannot confirm that this may be possible for truncated power laws. I am looking for a mathematician that can clarify this fact. Cheers Sylvan From j.s.katz at SUSSEX.AC.UK Tue Oct 8 13:10:19 2013 From: j.s.katz at SUSSEX.AC.UK (Sylvan Katz) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 11:10:19 -0600 Subject: CWTS Journal Indicators In-Reply-To: <265B14FECF4CA647B6A3DBEB4028751B625D0826@BY2PRD0610MB364.namprd06.prod.outlook.com> Message-ID: Stephen, I will give you question some thought. It may take a bit of time as I am up to my eyeballs with work at the moment. Have you seen Clauset web page? It has lots of hints and loads of software for determining distributional characteristics. http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~aaronc/powerlaws/ However, I have found the while the R: routines are fast the MatLab routines needed to determine the p-values on the distributions can take days and sometimes weeks on a regular MatLab server to compute. This is because the p-values are determined using a Monte Carlo simulations. Lately I have been using the high performance computing lab at the local university. On these machines I can run parallel MatLab which reduces the computational time at least an order of magnitude. Recently, I was the awarded an Elsevier data set from Scopu under the Elsevier Bibliometric Research Program. As you may know for years I have been publishing on the scaling correlation between groups sizes measured using peer-reviewed papers and group impacts measured using citations to the groups papers. In every instance the scaling correlation had an exponent greater than 1.0. Now I am going to look at the scaling correlation between groups sizes and (1) within field citations and (2) out of field citations. It is my hypothesis that while the within field scaling correlation may have an exponent > 1.0 (cumulative advantage) the outside of field citation will have an exponent of < 1.0 (cumulative disadvantage). It is going to be a busy winter using Clauset's routines :) Yes - I would sure like to know if a truncated power law with a tail exponent of less than 3.0 can be claimed to have a defined variance. I am currently retired living in Saskatoon Canada with little access to knowledgeable resources theses days. If your mathematicians can bring some light to the issue it would be sincerely helpful. Cheers Sylvan Katz Visiting Research Fellow http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/sylvank/ On 10/8/2013 10:30 AM, Stephen J Bensman wrote: > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > From: Stephen J Bensman > Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2013 11:28 AM > To: 'j.s.katz at sussex.ac.uk' > Subject: RE: [SIGMETRICS] CWTS Journal Indicators > > Sylvan, > I have read and am reading all that you suggested below. What has happened to me is that I stumbled into a scientific revolution that I did not know about--complex systems, and this revolution is encompassing informetrics. I am very interested in the Yule-Simon distribution, because I am interested in Google Scholar. What I call "Yule Simon" model and you call the power- law model is of interest to me, because it is an accepted model for both the structure of the Web and scientometric laws. Therefore it is a perfect model to serve as a foil for cross-disciplinary comparisons to determine how well different disciplines approximate this model. It really reveals the differences between the structure of disciplines. For example, we find that economics may approximate what Clauset-Shalizi-Newman in their SIAM article call "the power-law +cut-off" because Google citations concentrate on the key book of economist Nobelists, shooting it far to the right and distorting the distributi on, whereas mathematics cannot come anywhere near the power-law model due to the insularity of the subfields. Mathematicians cannot communicate with each other across sub-disciplines and have difficulty in farting out a right asymptote at all (pardon my Shakespearian language). > > Perhaps you can help me. I need to make the tests recommended by Clauset-Shalizi-Newman in their SIAM article. That way I can go from r^2 approximations to "null-and-alternate hypotheses." I cannot handle their tests and need a computer program that can do this for me--power-law testing for dummies. We have found that, if you have a power-law + cut-off, it gives false, ridiculous readings on the r^2 approximations. We find that if you truncate the book, the model does more approach a power-law model. I am working with some mathematicians on this, and I hope that they can handle this, but mathematicians are not physicists. Perhaps they can help you with your problem. If you want, I can send you my binomial analysis of the Clauset-Shalizi-Newman findings. For example, discrete or counting distributions are more likely than continuous distributions to approximate the power-law model. > > Hopefully, if I can survive Chico, I may be able to survive this. As Nietzsche once said, "What does not kill me, makes me stronger." > > > Stephen J Bensman > LSU Libraries > Lousiana State University > Baton Rouge, LA 70803 > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sylvan Katz [mailto:j.s.katz at sussex.ac.uk] > Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2013 10:10 AM > To: Stephen J Bensman > Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] CWTS Journal Indicators > > Stephen > > PLEASE NOTE -- I am reply off the reflector. My concern was not with the Journal Impact Factor it was with SNIP. > >> That is what is meant by "scale free"--there is no measure of central >> tendency representative of the population. All scientometric >> measures-- it seems--should be based on the the characteristics of the >> tail or right asymptote. However, we are finding that this differs >> wildly depending on the structure of the field. There seems to be no one shoe fits all. > > Perhaps you have not read Newman's articles (Power laws, Pareto distributions and Zipf's law. Contemporary Physics, 46(5), 323-351. ). > In particular section See section 3.2. > > http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/courses/2006/cmplxsys899/powerlaws.pdf > > or perhaps you have not seen my paper that accompanied my keynote speach "Scale-independent measures: theory and practice". It shows that power law distributions can occur in any field or subfield. While it may not be a power law at one point in time it may be at another point in time. > This analysis was done using the Gold standard technique for determining if a distribution is a power law as given in the article Clauset, A., Shalizi, C. S., & Newman, M. E. J. (2009). Power-law distributions in empirical data. SIAM Review, 51(4), 661-703. > > http://sticonference.org/index.php?page=proc > >> However, this does not seem to be the case empirically. Ordinal >> rankings of journals by impact factor are remarkably stable over time. >> I proved this in my article on Garfield and the impact factor posted >> on Gene's site (see pp. 66-68): > > This is a ranking not an analysis of the underlying distribution. > Stability over time could mean that the same error occurs again and again i.e. means are calculated for distributions that have an infinite variance and over this error is stable. Unfortunately an analysis of rankings will not tell you anything about the citation distribution. The distribution of the primary measures such as citation distributions needs to be performed before one can assert that the CLT holds. > > Nees did make a good point about truncated power law distribution with exponents less than 3.0 perhaps have a defined variance. I am not a mathematician so I cannot confirm that this may be possible for truncated power laws. I am looking for a mathematician that can clarify this fact. > > Cheers > Sylvan > From j.s.katz at SUSSEX.AC.UK Tue Oct 8 13:21:23 2013 From: j.s.katz at SUSSEX.AC.UK (Sylvan Katz) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 11:21:23 -0600 Subject: CWTS Journal Indicators In-Reply-To: <52543C7B.3040805@sussex.ac.uk> Message-ID: Aplogies - that was meant to be a private email to Stephen. No harm anyways - Sylvan Sylvan Katz Visiting Research Fellow http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/sylvank/ From saravanan.g at IFPINDIA.ORG Wed Oct 9 00:41:31 2013 From: saravanan.g at IFPINDIA.ORG (saravanan) Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 10:11:31 +0530 Subject: Relative growth rate & Doubling time in Journals Message-ID: Dear Friends, I would like to know whether we can analyze Relative Growth Rate and Doubling Time in Journals? Thanking you, With regards, Mr. G. Saravanan alias Goby Krichenan Librarian French Institute of Pondicherry # 11, Saint Louis Street, P.B. 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Some example abbreviations: WWW.ScienceMag.org/site/feature/contribinfo/prep/res/journal_abbrevs.xhtml I quote from an email from Mark Newman to this email list timestamped Thu, 8 Aug 2013 12:57:05 -0400 quoting an email from Marie E. McVeigh: |---------------------------------------------------------------------------| |"[. . .] | | | |I do need to specify that this is NOT due to the difference in the title. | |We use a variety of metadata fingerprints on source and on cited reference | |to match and link, but none requires a complete or perfect match in the | |cited title string. The more non-title elements match, the less dependent | |we are on source title. The algorithms are bolstered by standard word | |abbreviations and an expert curation of title variants ? Phys Rev E, alone,| |has 17 recorded variants, once we impose standard abbreviation of Physical | |and of Review. All ?linked? citations show the Thomson Reuters ? JCR | |abbreviation PHYS REV E because, once linking is established by metadata | |match, we aggregate the references to our system-standard title. That is | |also applied to the 209 citations that are linked to the Medline Record for| |the article used in your example ? we are preferentially displaying the | |Medline title of the source rather than any of the variations of the title | |that appeared in the original citation. I can pretty well guarantee you | |that they did not all cite ?Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys?. | |Probably most said ?Phys Rev E?. | | | |Because we retain in our system metadata all of the title variants that are| |associated even with a collection of references that are all unified (like | |the 209 refs to ?May RM, Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys? and the | |72 refs to ?May RM, PHYS REV E? both references can be retrieved from Web | |of Science using a cited reference search for Cited Work = PHYS REV E or a | |cited reference search for Cited Work = ?PHYSICAL REVIEW E? | | | |[. . .] | | | |Marie E. McVeigh" | |---------------------------------------------------------------------------| Best wishes, Colin Paul Gloster From ryan.zelnio at NAVY.MIL Wed Oct 9 08:18:37 2013 From: ryan.zelnio at NAVY.MIL (Zelnio, Ryan J CIV NSWCDD, Q31) Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 12:18:37 +0000 Subject: list of abbrev. for journals In-Reply-To: Message-ID: The group behind Sci2 at UIndiana compile the ISI abbreviations into a txt file and can be downloaded directly at: http://nwb.cns.iu.edu/svn/nwb/branches/ant-build/sci2/deployment/edu.iu.sci2.gui.brand/extra-files/configuration/JournalGroups.txt or you can go directly to the source and compile it in your own format at: http://images.webofknowledge.com/WOK45/help/WOS/0-9_abrvjt.html -Ryan Zelnio -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Colin Paul Gloster Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2013 7:32 AM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] list of abbrev. for journals On 30th September 2013, Clement Levallois sent: |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| |"I am looking for a list of journals and their abbreviations, in file |format| (csv or else). Is this resource made publicly available by ISI or an other | |institution? | | | |Best wishes, | | | |Clement Levallois" | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| Different people use different abbreviations. Some example abbreviations: WWW.ScienceMag.org/site/feature/contribinfo/prep/res/journal_abbrevs.xhtml I quote from an email from Mark Newman to this email list timestamped Thu, 8 Aug 2013 12:57:05 -0400 quoting an email from Marie E. McVeigh: |---------------------------------------------------------------------------| |"[. . .] | | || I do need to specify that this is NOT due to the difference in the |title. | We use a variety of metadata fingerprints on source and on cited reference | |to match and link, but none requires a complete or perfect match in the | |cited title string. The more non-title elements match, the less dependent | |we are on source title. The algorithms are bolstered by standard word | |abbreviations and an expert curation of title variants ? Phys Rev E, |alone,| has 17 recorded variants, once we impose standard abbreviation of Physical | |and of Review. All ?linked? citations show the Thomson Reuters ? JCR | |abbreviation PHYS REV E because, once linking is established by metadata | |match, we aggregate the references to our system-standard title. That |is | also applied to the 209 citations that are linked to the Medline Record for| |the article used in your example ? we are preferentially displaying the | |Medline title of the source rather than any of the variations of the title | |that appeared in the original citation. I can pretty well guarantee you | |that they did not all cite ?Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys?. | |Probably most said ?Phys Rev E?. | | || Because we retain in our system metadata all of the title variants |that are| associated even with a collection of references that are all |unified (like | the 209 refs to ?May RM, Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft |Matter Phys? and the | |72 refs to ?May RM, PHYS REV E? both references can be retrieved from |Web | of Science using a cited reference search for Cited Work = PHYS REV E or a | |cited reference search for Cited Work = ?PHYSICAL REVIEW E? | | | |[. . .] | | | |Marie E. McVeigh" | |---------------------------------------------------------------------------| Best wishes, Colin Paul Gloster -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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On Oct 9, 2013 7:29 AM, "Zelnio, Ryan J CIV NSWCDD, Q31" < ryan.zelnio at navy.mil> wrote: > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > The group behind Sci2 at UIndiana compile the ISI abbreviations into a txt > file and can be downloaded directly at: > > > http://nwb.cns.iu.edu/svn/nwb/branches/ant-build/sci2/deployment/edu.iu.sci2.gui.brand/extra-files/configuration/JournalGroups.txt > > or you can go directly to the source and compile it in your own format at: > http://images.webofknowledge.com/WOK45/help/WOS/0-9_abrvjt.html > > -Ryan Zelnio > > -----Original Message----- > From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto: > SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Colin Paul Gloster > Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2013 7:32 AM > To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU > Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] list of abbrev. for journals > > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > On 30th September 2013, Clement Levallois sent: > > |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| > |"I am looking for a list of journals and their abbreviations, in file > |format| (csv or else). Is this resource made publicly available by ISI or > an other | > |institution? > | > | > | > |Best wishes, > | > | > | > |Clement Levallois" > | > > |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| > > Different people use different abbreviations. Some example abbreviations: > WWW.ScienceMag.org/site/feature/contribinfo/prep/res/journal_abbrevs.xhtml > > I quote from an email from Mark Newman to this email list timestamped Thu, > 8 Aug 2013 12:57:05 -0400 quoting an email from Marie E. McVeigh: > > |---------------------------------------------------------------------------| > |"[. . .] > | > | > || I do need to specify that this is NOT due to the difference in the > |title. | We use a variety of metadata fingerprints on source and on > cited reference | > |to match and link, but none requires a complete or perfect match in the > | > |cited title string. The more non-title elements match, the less > dependent | > |we are on source title. The algorithms are bolstered by standard word > | > |abbreviations and an expert curation of title variants ? Phys Rev E, > |alone,| has 17 recorded variants, once we impose standard abbreviation of > Physical | > |and of Review. All ?linked? citations show the Thomson Reuters ? JCR > | > |abbreviation PHYS REV E because, once linking is established by metadata > | > |match, we aggregate the references to our system-standard title. That > |is | also applied to the 209 citations that are linked to the Medline > Record for| > |the article used in your example ? we are preferentially displaying the > | > |Medline title of the source rather than any of the variations of the > title | > |that appeared in the original citation. I can pretty well guarantee you > | > |that they did not all cite ?Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys?. > | > |Probably most said ?Phys Rev E?. > | > | > || Because we retain in our system metadata all of the title variants > |that are| associated even with a collection of references that are all > |unified (like | the 209 refs to ?May RM, Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft > |Matter Phys? and the | > |72 refs to ?May RM, PHYS REV E? both references can be retrieved from > |Web | of Science using a cited reference search for Cited Work = PHYS > REV E or a | > |cited reference search for Cited Work = ?PHYSICAL REVIEW E? > | > | > | > |[. . .] > | > | > | > |Marie E. McVeigh" > | > > |---------------------------------------------------------------------------| > > Best wishes, > Colin Paul Gloster > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From malekiashraf68 at GMAIL.COM Wed Oct 9 10:04:00 2013 From: malekiashraf68 at GMAIL.COM (Ashraf Maleki) Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 17:34:00 +0330 Subject: list of abbrev. for journals (and non-abbreviated listing too). In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Here, I had made a dataset of *Journal Citation Report 2011* that contatins Web of Science subject categories, journal abbreviations, and journal indicators. It works pretty well for database managements purposes. Please note that journals are duplicated since most receive multiple subject categories. Hope it helps! On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 4:40 PM, David Dror wrote: > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > You can also go to Journal Citation Reports directly. They have a listing > of all of the journals they cover and their abbreviations as a PDF. > > On this topic I'm looking for a listing of journals by subject without > abbreviations. Does anyone know where I might find that? > > Thank you. > On Oct 9, 2013 7:29 AM, "Zelnio, Ryan J CIV NSWCDD, Q31" < > ryan.zelnio at navy.mil> wrote: > >> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >> >> The group behind Sci2 at UIndiana compile the ISI abbreviations into a >> txt file and can be downloaded directly at: >> >> >> http://nwb.cns.iu.edu/svn/nwb/branches/ant-build/sci2/deployment/edu.iu.sci2.gui.brand/extra-files/configuration/JournalGroups.txt >> >> or you can go directly to the source and compile it in your own format at: >> http://images.webofknowledge.com/WOK45/help/WOS/0-9_abrvjt.html >> >> -Ryan Zelnio >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto: >> SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Colin Paul Gloster >> Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2013 7:32 AM >> To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU >> Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] list of abbrev. for journals >> >> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >> >> On 30th September 2013, Clement Levallois sent: >> >> |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| >> |"I am looking for a list of journals and their abbreviations, in file >> |format| (csv or else). Is this resource made publicly available by ISI >> or an other | >> |institution? >> | >> | >> | >> |Best wishes, >> | >> | >> | >> |Clement Levallois" >> | >> >> |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| >> >> Different people use different abbreviations. Some example abbreviations: >> WWW.ScienceMag.org/site/feature/contribinfo/prep/res/journal_abbrevs.xhtml >> >> I quote from an email from Mark Newman to this email list timestamped >> Thu, 8 Aug 2013 12:57:05 -0400 quoting an email from Marie E. McVeigh: >> >> |---------------------------------------------------------------------------| >> |"[. . .] >> | >> | >> || I do need to specify that this is NOT due to the difference in the >> |title. | We use a variety of metadata fingerprints on source and on >> cited reference | >> |to match and link, but none requires a complete or perfect match in the >> | >> |cited title string. The more non-title elements match, the less >> dependent | >> |we are on source title. The algorithms are bolstered by standard word >> | >> |abbreviations and an expert curation of title variants ? Phys Rev E, >> |alone,| has 17 recorded variants, once we impose standard abbreviation >> of Physical | >> |and of Review. All ?linked? citations show the Thomson Reuters ? JCR >> | >> |abbreviation PHYS REV E because, once linking is established by metadata >> | >> |match, we aggregate the references to our system-standard title. That >> |is | also applied to the 209 citations that are linked to the Medline >> Record for| >> |the article used in your example ? we are preferentially displaying the >> | >> |Medline title of the source rather than any of the variations of the >> title | >> |that appeared in the original citation. I can pretty well guarantee you >> | >> |that they did not all cite ?Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys?. >> | >> |Probably most said ?Phys Rev E?. >> | >> | >> || Because we retain in our system metadata all of the title variants >> |that are| associated even with a collection of references that are all >> |unified (like | the 209 refs to ?May RM, Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft >> |Matter Phys? and the | >> |72 refs to ?May RM, PHYS REV E? both references can be retrieved from >> |Web | of Science using a cited reference search for Cited Work = PHYS >> REV E or a | >> |cited reference search for Cited Work = ?PHYSICAL REVIEW E? >> | >> | >> | >> |[. . .] >> | >> | >> | >> |Marie E. McVeigh" >> | >> >> |---------------------------------------------------------------------------| >> >> Best wishes, >> Colin Paul Gloster >> > -- Ashraf Maleki MSc. 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Best wishes, Alicia Aparicio 2013/10/9 David Dror > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > You can also go to Journal Citation Reports directly. They have a listing > of all of the journals they cover and their abbreviations as a PDF. > > On this topic I'm looking for a listing of journals by subject without > abbreviations. Does anyone know where I might find that? > > Thank you. > On Oct 9, 2013 7:29 AM, "Zelnio, Ryan J CIV NSWCDD, Q31" < > ryan.zelnio at navy.mil> wrote: > >> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >> >> The group behind Sci2 at UIndiana compile the ISI abbreviations into a >> txt file and can be downloaded directly at: >> >> >> http://nwb.cns.iu.edu/svn/nwb/branches/ant-build/sci2/deployment/edu.iu.sci2.gui.brand/extra-files/configuration/JournalGroups.txt >> >> or you can go directly to the source and compile it in your own format at: >> http://images.webofknowledge.com/WOK45/help/WOS/0-9_abrvjt.html >> >> -Ryan Zelnio >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto: >> SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Colin Paul Gloster >> Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2013 7:32 AM >> To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU >> Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] list of abbrev. for journals >> >> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >> >> On 30th September 2013, Clement Levallois sent: >> >> |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| >> |"I am looking for a list of journals and their abbreviations, in file >> |format| (csv or else). Is this resource made publicly available by ISI >> or an other | >> |institution? >> | >> | >> | >> |Best wishes, >> | >> | >> | >> |Clement Levallois" >> | >> >> |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| >> >> Different people use different abbreviations. Some example abbreviations: >> WWW.ScienceMag.org/site/feature/contribinfo/prep/res/journal_abbrevs.xhtml >> >> I quote from an email from Mark Newman to this email list timestamped >> Thu, 8 Aug 2013 12:57:05 -0400 quoting an email from Marie E. McVeigh: >> >> |---------------------------------------------------------------------------| >> |"[. . .] >> | >> | >> || I do need to specify that this is NOT due to the difference in the >> |title. | We use a variety of metadata fingerprints on source and on >> cited reference | >> |to match and link, but none requires a complete or perfect match in the >> | >> |cited title string. The more non-title elements match, the less >> dependent | >> |we are on source title. The algorithms are bolstered by standard word >> | >> |abbreviations and an expert curation of title variants ? Phys Rev E, >> |alone,| has 17 recorded variants, once we impose standard abbreviation >> of Physical | >> |and of Review. All ?linked? citations show the Thomson Reuters ? JCR >> | >> |abbreviation PHYS REV E because, once linking is established by metadata >> | >> |match, we aggregate the references to our system-standard title. That >> |is | also applied to the 209 citations that are linked to the Medline >> Record for| >> |the article used in your example ? we are preferentially displaying the >> | >> |Medline title of the source rather than any of the variations of the >> title | >> |that appeared in the original citation. I can pretty well guarantee you >> | >> |that they did not all cite ?Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys?. >> | >> |Probably most said ?Phys Rev E?. >> | >> | >> || Because we retain in our system metadata all of the title variants >> |that are| associated even with a collection of references that are all >> |unified (like | the 209 refs to ?May RM, Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft >> |Matter Phys? and the | >> |72 refs to ?May RM, PHYS REV E? both references can be retrieved from >> |Web | of Science using a cited reference search for Cited Work = PHYS >> REV E or a | >> |cited reference search for Cited Work = ?PHYSICAL REVIEW E? >> | >> | >> | >> |[. . .] >> | >> | >> | >> |Marie E. McVeigh" >> | >> >> |---------------------------------------------------------------------------| >> >> Best wishes, >> Colin Paul Gloster >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Not surprisingly, the knowledge base of the economy is concentrated in the Moscow region (22.8%); St. Petersburg follows with 4.0%. Only 0.4% of the firms are classified as high-tech; and 2.7% as medium-tech manufacturing (NACE, Rev. 2). Except in Moscow itself, high-tech manufacturing does not add synergy to any other unit at any of the various levels of geographical granularity; it disturbs instead the regional coordination even in the region surrounding Moscow ("Moscow Oblast"). In the case of medium-tech manufacturing, there is also synergy in St. Petersburg. Knowledge-intensive services (KIS; including laboratories) contribute 12.8% to the economy in terms of establishments and contribute in all Federal Districts (except the North-Caucasian Federal District) to the synergy, but only in 30 of the 83 (36.1%) Federal Subjects. The synergy in KIS is concentrated in centers of administration. Different from Western-European countries, the knowledge-intensive services (which are often state-affiliated) thus provide a backbone to an emerging knowledge-based economy at the level of Federal Districts, but the economy is otherwise not knowledge-based (except for the Moscow region). Available at http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.3040 . ** apologies for cross-postings _____ Loet Leydesdorff Professor, University of Amsterdam Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ Honorary Professor, SPRU, University of Sussex; Visiting Professor, ISTIC, Beijing; http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYAAAAJ&hl=en -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From lutz.bornmann at GV.MPG.DE Tue Oct 15 03:30:19 2013 From: lutz.bornmann at GV.MPG.DE (Bornmann, Lutz) Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 07:30:19 +0000 Subject: How to evaluate individual researchers Message-ID: How to evaluate individual researchers working in the natural and life sciences meaningfully? A proposal of methods based on percentiles of citations Lutz Bornmann, Werner Marx Although bibliometrics has been a separate research field for many years, there is still no uniformity in the way bibliometric analyses are applied to individual researchers. Therefore, this study aims to set up proposals how to evaluate individual researchers working in the natural and life sciences. 2005 saw the introduction of the h index, which gives information about a researcher's productivity and the impact of his or her publications in a single number (h is the number of publications with at least h citations); however, it is not possible to cover the multidimensional complexity of research performance and to undertake inter-personal comparisons with this number. This study therefore includes recommendations for a set of indicators to be used for evaluating researchers. Our proposals relate to the selection of data on which an evaluation is based, the analysis of the data and the presentation of the results. available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.3697 --------------------------------------- Dr. Dr. habil. Lutz Bornmann Division for Science and Innovation Studies Administrative Headquarters of the Max Planck Society Hofgartenstr. 8 80539 Munich Tel.: +49 89 2108 1265 Mobil: +49 170 9183667 Email: bornmann at gv.mpg.de WWW: www.lutz-bornmann.de ResearcherID: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-3926-2008 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pzhou5544 at GMAIL.COM Tue Oct 15 08:12:41 2013 From: pzhou5544 at GMAIL.COM (pzhou5544) Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 20:12:41 +0800 Subject: A bibliometric investigation on China=?gb2312?Q?=A8CUK_?= collaboration Message-ID: A bibliometric investigation on China?CUK collaboration in food and agriculture Ping Zhou ?? Yongfeng Zhong ?? Meigen Yu Based on data from the Web of Science, international collaboration between China and the UK in food and agriculture has been investigated from various perspectives. A new method has been created for classifying cross- or multidisciplinary fields. The comparative study focuses on China??s collaboration with selected countries including the UK, the USA, Germany, Japan and India. The newly proposed Integrated Impact Indicator (I3) has been applied to evaluate publication impact. China??s research activity in food and agriculture keeps strengthened and international collaboration reflected by number of publications has been increased in an exponential way. The increasing speed of internationally collaborated publications is higher than that of China??s total publications. The USA, Japan, Canada, Australia, the UK and Germany are China??s top partners. China-UK joint publications increased in a fluctuating way but the share in China??s total internationally collaborated publications decreased. China??s fast increasing international publications and impact in food agriculture implies collaboration potential of this country, and thus providing space for the UK and other countries to explore further collaboration possibilities. The fact that the average impact of China-UK collaboration is higher than domestic publications of either country indicates that collaboration benefits both sides. Availabe at: Scientometrics (2013) 97:267?C285 Professor, Zhejiang University Department of Information Resource Management Hangzhou, China Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4EOaTNcAAAAJ&hl=en -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Wed Oct 16 03:52:16 2013 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 09:52:16 +0200 Subject: How to evaluate individual researchers In-Reply-To: <26D4503C9B0C8B43A20B92EF238B98AE165CFC38@UM-EXCDAG-A04.um.gwdg.de> Message-ID: Dear Lutz and Werner, I read your paper with interest. You plead for using a balanced set of indicators as partial perspectives. That seems all very reasonable. A bit unexpected is your strong plea for using the Category Ranks of Thomson Reuters instead of the JIF. You call these ?Normalized Journal Positions?. In the case of more than a single category for a journal, you average them. I don?t understand how one can use these measures at the journal level subsequently at the level of individual papers? As expected values against which one can test individual scores? Is there empirical evidence that this journal measure is much better than a number of others? (e.g., fractional counting, I3, eigenfactor, SJR2, SNIP2, etc.) The title suggests also a number of ethical issues. What are the rights of the evaluated? For example, in terms of transparency of the data and methods? Is this different for public (academic and governmental) research institutions such as your own from in the case of a commercial contract on the market? In the latter case it seems up to the employer how to use the report, but in the case of academic contributions one could expect a code of conduct in relation to issues as data and transparency. How does one handle errors in the data? Let me provide an example. A few years ago, our faculty was evaluated by CWTS in Leiden. During this process, each of us were asked to check a list provided by CWTS. I noted that one of my papers was misclassified in the data (WoS). While it was a citable item (anonymously refereed), it was classified as non-citable editorial. This could not be corrected. I don?t mind, but if one is on tenure-track. ?? These issues also come up at institutional levels, but they are more pronounced at the individual level. What are the rights of those who are evaluated? Does one perhaps need a lawyer? Is there an appeal with the database producers and/or analysts? How does the Max Planck Society handle these issues? There may be real damages; who is accountable? We know the pitfalls of these evaluations. Best, Loet From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Bornmann, Lutz Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2013 9:30 AM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: [SIGMETRICS] How to evaluate individual researchers How to evaluate individual researchers working in the natural and life sciences meaningfully? A proposal of methods based on percentiles of citations Lutz Bornmann, Werner Marx Although bibliometrics has been a separate research field for many years, there is still no uniformity in the way bibliometric analyses are applied to individual researchers. Therefore, this study aims to set up proposals how to evaluate individual researchers working in the natural and life sciences. 2005 saw the introduction of the h index, which gives information about a researcher's productivity and the impact of his or her publications in a single number (h is the number of publications with at least h citations); however, it is not possible to cover the multidimensional complexity of research performance and to undertake inter-personal comparisons with this number. This study therefore includes recommendations for a set of indicators to be used for evaluating researchers. Our proposals relate to the selection of data on which an evaluation is based, the analysis of the data and the presentation of the results. available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.3697 --------------------------------------- Dr. Dr. habil. Lutz Bornmann Division for Science and Innovation Studies Administrative Headquarters of the Max Planck Society Hofgartenstr. 8 80539 Munich Tel.: +49 89 2108 1265 Mobil: +49 170 9183667 Email: bornmann at gv.mpg.de WWW: www.lutz-bornmann.de ResearcherID: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-3926-2008 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lutz.bornmann at GV.MPG.DE Wed Oct 16 07:25:41 2013 From: lutz.bornmann at GV.MPG.DE (Bornmann, Lutz) Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 11:25:41 +0000 Subject: How to evaluate individual researchers In-Reply-To: <001101ceca44$a319d890$e94d89b0$@leydesdorff.net> Message-ID: Dear Loet, Many thanks for your feedback. I think one can write a book on the topic ?how to evaluate a single scientists.? In a book, one would have the room for many more aspects than we dealt with in our paper. We have concentrated on the technical aspects of research evaluation. Indeed, a second paper could follow on the many topics which you mentioned (ethical, political etc.). Our paper focuses on publication output, success (or failure) of publishing in good journals, and citation impact. I think it is reasonable to evaluate also on the journal level ? given that journal metrics are not used as proxies for the impact of single papers. There exists scientists who publish in good journals, but the impact of the single papers is not so high. For these cases, it is important to have metrics which reflect the good performance on the journal level. It is an advantage of the Normalized Journal Position that it can be calculated (very simple) with data from JCR. Furthermore, it is one of the few journal metrics which is field-normalized. There are also interesting variants available: for example, the q1-indicator (SCImago). The advantage of q1 is that one can operate with an expected value of 25%. Of course, our set of metrics is not ?written in stone.? They are justified recommendations. One can use other metrics, especially if one is an expert like you. Best, Lutz From: loet at leydesdorff.net [mailto:leydesdorff at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Loet Leydesdorff Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 9:52 AM To: 'ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics' Cc: 'Werner Marx'; Bornmann, Lutz Subject: RE: [SIGMETRICS] How to evaluate individual researchers Dear Lutz and Werner, I read your paper with interest. You plead for using a balanced set of indicators as partial perspectives. That seems all very reasonable. A bit unexpected is your strong plea for using the Category Ranks of Thomson Reuters instead of the JIF. You call these ?Normalized Journal Positions?. In the case of more than a single category for a journal, you average them. I don?t understand how one can use these measures at the journal level subsequently at the level of individual papers? As expected values against which one can test individual scores? Is there empirical evidence that this journal measure is much better than a number of others? (e.g., fractional counting, I3, eigenfactor, SJR2, SNIP2, etc.) The title suggests also a number of ethical issues. What are the rights of the evaluated? For example, in terms of transparency of the data and methods? Is this different for public (academic and governmental) research institutions such as your own from in the case of a commercial contract on the market? In the latter case it seems up to the employer how to use the report, but in the case of academic contributions one could expect a code of conduct in relation to issues as data and transparency. How does one handle errors in the data? Let me provide an example. A few years ago, our faculty was evaluated by CWTS in Leiden. During this process, each of us were asked to check a list provided by CWTS. I noted that one of my papers was misclassified in the data (WoS). While it was a citable item (anonymously refereed), it was classified as non-citable editorial. This could not be corrected. I don?t mind, but if one is on tenure-track. ?? These issues also come up at institutional levels, but they are more pronounced at the individual level. What are the rights of those who are evaluated? Does one perhaps need a lawyer? Is there an appeal with the database producers and/or analysts? How does the Max Planck Society handle these issues? There may be real damages; who is accountable? We know the pitfalls of these evaluations. Best, Loet From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Bornmann, Lutz Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2013 9:30 AM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: [SIGMETRICS] How to evaluate individual researchers How to evaluate individual researchers working in the natural and life sciences meaningfully? A proposal of methods based on percentiles of citations Lutz Bornmann, Werner Marx Although bibliometrics has been a separate research field for many years, there is still no uniformity in the way bibliometric analyses are applied to individual researchers. Therefore, this study aims to set up proposals how to evaluate individual researchers working in the natural and life sciences. 2005 saw the introduction of the h index, which gives information about a researcher's productivity and the impact of his or her publications in a single number (h is the number of publications with at least h citations); however, it is not possible to cover the multidimensional complexity of research performance and to undertake inter-personal comparisons with this number. This study therefore includes recommendations for a set of indicators to be used for evaluating researchers. Our proposals relate to the selection of data on which an evaluation is based, the analysis of the data and the presentation of the results. available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.3697 --------------------------------------- Dr. Dr. habil. Lutz Bornmann Division for Science and Innovation Studies Administrative Headquarters of the Max Planck Society Hofgartenstr. 8 80539 Munich Tel.: +49 89 2108 1265 Mobil: +49 170 9183667 Email: bornmann at gv.mpg.de WWW: www.lutz-bornmann.de ResearcherID: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-3926-2008 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Colin_Paul_Gloster at ACM.ORG Fri Oct 18 19:28:11 2013 From: Colin_Paul_Gloster at ACM.ORG (=?UTF-8?Q?Paul_Colin_de_Glouce=C5=BFter?=) Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 01:28:11 +0200 Subject: The Science "Sting" and Pre-Green Fee-Based Fool's Gold vs. Post-Green No-Fault Fair-Gold In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On October 4th, 2013, Stevan Harnad sent: |----------------------------------------------------------| |"[. . .] | | | |For some peer-review stings of non-OA journals, see below:| | | |[. . .]" | |----------------------------------------------------------| Also see Nicholas H. Steneck, "Confronting Misconduct in Science in the 1980s and 1990s: What has and has not been accomplished?", "Science and Engineering Ethics" (1999) 5, 161-176. From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Tue Oct 22 01:35:24 2013 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 07:35:24 +0200 Subject: Journal maps and interactive overlays using Scopus data; preprint Message-ID: Journal Maps, Interactive Overlays, and the Measurement of Interdisciplinarity on the Basis of Scopus Data (1996-2012) Loet Leydesdorff, F?lix de Moya-Aneg?n, and Vicente P. Guerrero-Bote Using Scopus data, we construct a global map of science based on aggregated journal-journal citations from 1996-2012 (N of journals = 20,554). This base map enables users to overlay downloads from Scopus interactively. Using a single year (e.g., 2012), results can be compared with mappings based on the Journal Citation Reports at the Web-of-Science (N = 10,936). The Scopus maps are richer at both the local and global levels because of their greater coverage, including, for example, the arts and humanities. The base maps can be interactively overlaid with journal distributions in sets downloaded from Scopus, for example, for the purpose of portfolio analysis. Rao-Stirling diversity can be used as a measure of interdisciplinarity in the sets under study. Maps at the global and the local level, however, can be very different because of the different levels of aggregation involved. Two journals, for example, can both belong to the humanities in the global map, but participate in different specialty structures locally. The base map and interactive tools are available online (with instructions) at http://www.leydesdorff.net/scopus_ovl/ http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.4966 ** apologies for cross-postings _____ Loet Leydesdorff Professor, University of Amsterdam Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ Honorary Professor, SPRU, University of Sussex; Visiting Professor, ISTIC, Beijing; http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYAAAAJ&hl=en -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fil at INDIANA.EDU Tue Oct 22 13:16:56 2013 From: fil at INDIANA.EDU (Fil Menczer) Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 13:16:56 -0400 Subject: Universality of scholarly impact metrics Message-ID: This new paper should be relevant to discussions on impact metrics and their biases (apologies for cross-posting): Universality of scholarly impact metrics Jasleen Kaur, Filippo Radicchi, Filippo Menczer Journal of Informetrics 7 (4): 924?932, 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2013.09.002 Preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.6339 Abstract: Given the growing use of impact metrics in the evaluation of scholars, journals, academic institutions, and even countries, there is a critical need for means to compare scientific impact across disciplinary boundaries. Unfortunately, citation-based metrics are strongly biased by diverse field sizes and publication and citation practices. As a result, we have witnessed an explosion in the number of newly proposed metrics that claim to be "universal." However, there is currently no way to objectively assess whether a normalized metric can actually compensate for disciplinary bias. We introduce a new method to assess the universality of any scholarly impact metric, and apply it to evaluate a number of established metrics. We also define a very simple new metric hs, which proves to be universal, thus allowing to compare the impact of scholars across scientific disciplines. These results move us closer to a formal methodology in the measure of scholarly impact. Filippo Menczer Professor of Informatics and Computer Science Director, Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research Indiana University, Bloomington http://cnets.indiana.edu/people/filippo-menczer From quentinburrell at MANX.NET Tue Oct 22 14:20:00 2013 From: quentinburrell at MANX.NET (Quentin Burrell) Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 19:20:00 +0100 Subject: OA Message-ID: I post this without comment. http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2013/oct/21/open-access-myths-peter-suber-harvard But I would be interested to hear listmembers responses/reactions BW Quentin Burrell From dwojick at CRAIGELLACHIE.US Wed Oct 23 12:24:04 2013 From: dwojick at CRAIGELLACHIE.US (David Wojick) Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 12:24:04 -0400 Subject: OA In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Peter Suber is a leader of the OA movement. His article is an argument, not an analysis. He seems to be oblivious to what is actually going on. Happy OA week. David Wojick At 02:20 PM 10/22/2013, you wrote: >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > >I post this without comment. > >http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2013/oct/21/open-access-myths-peter-suber-harvard > >But I would be interested to hear listmembers responses/reactions > >BW > >Quentin Burrell From j.bosman at UU.NL Wed Oct 23 12:50:59 2013 From: j.bosman at UU.NL (Bosman, J.M.) Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 16:50:59 +0000 Subject: OA In-Reply-To: <6.2.0.14.2.20131023122025.04297410@pop.craigellachie.us> Message-ID: Dear David, Sorry, could you tell us why you have the opinion that the author of the Guardian piece is oblivious to what is going on? What, in you eyes, is the main thing he seems not aware of? Thank you, Jeroen Bosman ----------------------------------------------- Jeroen Bosman, subject librarian Geography&Geoscience Utrecht University Library email: j.bosman at uu.nl twitter:@geolibrarianUBU / @jeroenbosman ----------------------------------------------------------------- P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of David Wojick Sent: woensdag 23 oktober 2013 18:24 To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] OA Peter Suber is a leader of the OA movement. His article is an argument, not an analysis. He seems to be oblivious to what is actually going on. Happy OA week. David Wojick At 02:20 PM 10/22/2013, you wrote: >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > >I post this without comment. > >http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2013/oct/21/op >en-access-myths-peter-suber-harvard > >But I would be interested to hear listmembers responses/reactions > >BW > >Quentin Burrell From dwojick at CRAIGELLACHIE.US Wed Oct 23 13:26:32 2013 From: dwojick at CRAIGELLACHIE.US (David Wojick) Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 13:26:32 -0400 Subject: OA In-Reply-To: <53EF71F4C5E22941A70899881A35FAEB44CF0F0D@ICTSC-W-S202.soli scom.uu.nl> Message-ID: Dear Joren, The USA has the lead here, as far as major funder mandates are concerned, and they have opted for a 12 month publisher embargo form of green OA. I have several articles on this at http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/author/dwojick/ Peter does not even discuss what is actually happening on the policy front. David At 12:50 PM 10/23/2013, you wrote: >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > >Dear David, > >Sorry, could you tell us why you have the opinion that the author of the >Guardian piece is oblivious to what is going on? What, in you eyes, is the >main thing he seems not aware of? > >Thank you, > >Jeroen Bosman >----------------------------------------------- >Jeroen Bosman, subject librarian Geography&Geoscience >Utrecht University Library >email: j.bosman at uu.nl >twitter:@geolibrarianUBU / @jeroenbosman >----------------------------------------------------------------- >P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail > > >-----Original Message----- >From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics >[mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of David Wojick >Sent: woensdag 23 oktober 2013 18:24 >To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU >Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] OA > >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > >Peter Suber is a leader of the OA movement. His article is an argument, >not an analysis. He seems to be oblivious to what is actually going on. > >Happy OA week. > >David Wojick > >At 02:20 PM 10/22/2013, you wrote: > >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > >http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > > >I post this without comment. > > > >http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2013/oct/21/op > >en-access-myths-peter-suber-harvard > > > >But I would be interested to hear listmembers responses/reactions > > > >BW > > > >Quentin Burrell -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eric.archambault at GMAIL.COM Wed Oct 23 13:19:41 2013 From: eric.archambault at GMAIL.COM (Eric Archambault) Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 13:19:41 -0400 Subject: OA In-Reply-To: <6.2.0.14.2.20131023122025.04297410@pop.craigellachie.us> Message-ID: Dear David Your response is not an analysis, it is an argument. Nice paradox. Eric 2013/10/23 David Wojick > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/**sigmetrics.html > > Peter Suber is a leader of the OA movement. His article is an argument, > not an analysis. He seems to be oblivious to what is actually going on. > > Happy OA week. > > David Wojick > > At 02:20 PM 10/22/2013, you wrote: > >> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/**sigmetrics.html >> >> I post this without comment. >> >> http://www.theguardian.com/**higher-education-network/blog/** >> 2013/oct/21/open-access-myths-**peter-suber-harvard >> >> But I would be interested to hear listmembers responses/reactions >> >> BW >> >> Quentin Burrell >> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From amsciforum at GMAIL.COM Wed Oct 23 13:50:49 2013 From: amsciforum at GMAIL.COM (Stevan Harnad) Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 13:50:49 -0400 Subject: OA In-Reply-To: <6.2.0.14.2.20131023131953.057bb3c0@pop.craigellachie.us> Message-ID: On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 1:26 PM, David Wojick wrote: > The USA has the lead here, as far as major funder mandates are concerned, > and they have opted for a 12 month publisher embargo form of green OA. I > have several articles on this at > http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/author/dwojick/ > > Peter does not even discuss what is actually happening on the policy front. > On leads vs. lags and analysis vs argument, see: *Revealing Dialogue on "CHORUS" with David Wojick, OSTI Consultant * The exchange is preceded by the following note (by me): *Note: *David Wojick works part time as the Senior Consultant for Innovation at OSTI, the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, in the Office of Science of the US Department of Energy. He has a PhD in logic and philosophy of science, an MA in mathematical logic, and a BS in civil engineering. In the exchanges below, he sounds [to me] very much like a publishing interest lobbyist, but judge for yourself. He also turns out to have a rather curious [and to me surprising] history in environmental matters ? The topic continued (and continues) to be discussed on the Society for Scholarly Publishing's blog, "The Scholarly Kitchen," where DW is a frequent contributor. *DW:* "Peter Suber is a leader of the OA movement. His article is an argument, not an analysis. He seems to be oblivious to what is actually going on?. Happy OA week." And a Happy OA week to DW too... *Stevan Harnad* At 12:50 PM 10/23/2013, you wrote: > > Dear David, > > Sorry, could you tell us why you have the opinion that the author of the > Guardian piece is oblivious to what is going on? What, in you eyes, is the > main thing he seems not aware of? > > Thank you, > > Jeroen Bosman > ----------------------------------------------- > Jeroen Bosman, subject librarian Geography&Geoscience > Utrecht University Library > email: j.bosman at uu.nl > twitter:@geolibrarianUBU / @jeroenbosman > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] > On Behalf Of David Wojick > Sent: woensdag 23 oktober 2013 18:24 > To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU > Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] OA > > Peter Suber is a leader of the OA movement. His article is an argument, > not an analysis. He seems to be oblivious to what is actually going on. > > Happy OA week. > > David Wojick > > At 02:20 PM 10/22/2013, you wrote: > >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > > >I post this without comment. > > > > http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2013/oct/21/op > >en-access-myths-peter-suber-harvard > > > >But I would be interested to hear listmembers responses/reactions > > > >BW > > > >Quentin Burrell > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dwojick at CRAIGELLACHIE.US Wed Oct 23 13:54:04 2013 From: dwojick at CRAIGELLACHIE.US (David Wojick) Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 13:54:04 -0400 Subject: OA In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Eric, what do you see me arguing for? To use the crude American expression, I have no dog in this fight. I am an analyst, not a moralist. I take no position on OA. David At 01:19 PM 10/23/2013, you wrote: >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >Dear David > >Your response is not an analysis, it is an argument. Nice paradox. > >Eric > > >2013/10/23 David Wojick ><dwojick at craigellachie.us> >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > >Peter Suber is a leader of the OA movement. His article is an argument, >not an analysis. He seems to be oblivious to what is actually going on. > >Happy OA week. > >David Wojick > >At 02:20 PM 10/22/2013, you wrote: >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > >I post this without comment. > >http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2013/oct/21/open-access-myths-peter-suber-harvard > >But I would be interested to hear listmembers responses/reactions > >BW > >Quentin Burrell > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dwojick at CRAIGELLACHIE.US Wed Oct 23 14:26:58 2013 From: dwojick at CRAIGELLACHIE.US (David Wojick) Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 14:26:58 -0400 Subject: OA In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Thanks for the plug Stevan. While we are at it I have been meaning to ask you a question. As I understand it your position is that all published articles should be immediately available for free. My question is why then anyone would subscribe to a journal? I am sure you have an answer but I have no idea what it is, as your proposal seems to defy the basic laws of economics. Immediate deposit seems to be self defeating. What have I missed? David At 01:50 PM 10/23/2013, you wrote: >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 1:26 PM, David Wojick ><dwojick at craigellachie.us> wrote: > >The USA has the lead here, as far as major funder mandates are concerned, >and they have opted for a 12 month publisher embargo form of green OA. I >have several articles on this at >http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/author/dwojick/ > > >Peter does not even discuss what is actually happening on the policy front. > > >On leads vs. lags and analysis vs argument, see: > >Revealing >Dialogue on "CHORUS" with David Wojick, OSTI Consultant > > >The exchange is preceded by the following note (by me): > > >Note: David Wojick works part >time as the Senior Consultant for Innovation at >OSTI, the Office of Scientific and Technical >Information, in the Office of Science of the US Department of Energy. He >has a PhD in logic and philosophy of science, an MA in mathematical logic, >and a BS in civil engineering. In the exchanges below, he sounds [to me] >very much like a publishing interest lobbyist, but judge for yourself. He >also turns out to have a rather curious [and to me surprising] >history in >environmental matters > > >The topic continued (and continues) to be discussed on the Society for >Scholarly Publishing's blog, >"The Scholarly Kitchen," where >DW is a frequent contributor. > >DW: "Peter Suber is a leader of the OA movement. His article is an >argument, not an analysis. He seems to be oblivious to what is actually >going on . Happy OA week." > >And a Happy OA week to DW too... > >Stevan Harnad > >At 12:50 PM 10/23/2013, you wrote: >>Dear David, >> >>Sorry, could you tell us why you have the opinion that the author of the >>Guardian piece is oblivious to what is going on? What, in you eyes, is >>the main thing he seems not aware of? >> >>Thank you, >> >>Jeroen Bosman >>----------------------------------------------- >>Jeroen Bosman, subject librarian Geography&Geoscience >>Utrecht University Library >>email: j.bosman at uu.nl >>twitter:@geolibrarianUBU / @jeroenbosman >>----------------------------------------------------------------- >>P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail >> >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [ >>mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of David Wojick >>Sent: woensdag 23 oktober 2013 18:24 >>To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU >>Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] OA >> >>Peter Suber is a leader of the OA movement. His article is an argument, >>not an analysis. He seems to be oblivious to what is actually going on. >> >>Happy OA week. >> >>David Wojick >> >>At 02:20 PM 10/22/2013, you wrote: >> >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >> > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >> > >> >I post this without comment. >> > >> > http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2013/oct/21/op >> >en-access-myths-peter-suber-harvard >> > >> >But I would be interested to hear listmembers responses/reactions >> > >> >BW >> > >> >Quentin Burrell > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Christina.Pikas at JHUAPL.EDU Wed Oct 23 14:40:02 2013 From: Christina.Pikas at JHUAPL.EDU (Pikas, Christina K.) Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 14:40:02 -0400 Subject: OA In-Reply-To: <6.2.0.14.2.20131023142112.0429a378@pop.craigellachie.us> Message-ID: I don't believe this particular discussion needs to be held on SIGMETRICS. In fact, this exact discussion was just held on LIBLICENSE - in excruciating detail. It's the thread(s) "provocative exchange" in September and October 2013 (start here: http://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A1=ind1309&L=LIBLICENSE-L#2 ) Christina From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu] On Behalf Of David Wojick Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 2:27 PM To: SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] OA Thanks for the plug Stevan. While we are at it I have been meaning to ask you a question. As I understand it your position is that all published articles should be immediately available for free. My question is why then anyone would subscribe to a journal? I am sure you have an answer but I have no idea what it is, as your proposal seems to defy the basic laws of economics. Immediate deposit seems to be self defeating. What have I missed? David At 01:50 PM 10/23/2013, you wrote: On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 1:26 PM, David Wojick > wrote: The USA has the lead here, as far as major funder mandates are concerned, and they have opted for a 12 month publisher embargo form of green OA. I have several articles on this at http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/author/dwojick/ Peter does not even discuss what is actually happening on the policy front. On leads vs. lags and analysis vs argument, see: Revealing Dialogue on "CHORUS" with David Wojick, OSTI Consultant The exchange is preceded by the following note (by me): Note: David Wojick works part time as the Senior Consultant for Innovation at OSTI, the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, in the Office of Science of the US Department of Energy. He has a PhD in logic and philosophy of science, an MA in mathematical logic, and a BS in civil engineering. In the exchanges below, he sounds [to me] very much like a publishing interest lobbyist, but judge for yourself. He also turns out to have a rather curious [and to me surprising] history in environmental matters... The topic continued (and continues) to be discussed on the Society for Scholarly Publishing's blog, "The Scholarly Kitchen," where DW is a frequent contributor. DW: "Peter Suber is a leader of the OA movement. His article is an argument, not an analysis. He seems to be oblivious to what is actually going on.... Happy OA week." And a Happy OA week to DW too... Stevan Harnad At 12:50 PM 10/23/2013, you wrote: Dear David, Sorry, could you tell us why you have the opinion that the author of the Guardian piece is oblivious to what is going on? What, in you eyes, is the main thing he seems not aware of? Thank you, Jeroen Bosman ----------------------------------------------- Jeroen Bosman, subject librarian Geography&Geoscience Utrecht University Library email: j.bosman at uu.nl twitter:@geolibrarianUBU / @jeroenbosman ----------------------------------------------------------------- P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [ mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of David Wojick Sent: woensdag 23 oktober 2013 18:24 To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] OA Peter Suber is a leader of the OA movement. His article is an argument, not an analysis. He seems to be oblivious to what is actually going on. Happy OA week. David Wojick At 02:20 PM 10/22/2013, you wrote: >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > >I post this without comment. > > http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2013/oct/21/op >en-access-myths-peter-suber-harvard > >But I would be interested to hear listmembers responses/reactions > >BW > >Quentin Burrell -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From amsciforum at GMAIL.COM Wed Oct 23 14:43:23 2013 From: amsciforum at GMAIL.COM (Stevan Harnad) Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 14:43:23 -0400 Subject: OA In-Reply-To: <6.2.0.14.2.20131023142112.0429a378@pop.craigellachie.us> Message-ID: On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 2:26 PM, David Wojick wrote: > As I understand it your position is that all published articles should be > immediately available for free. My question is why then anyone would > subscribe to a journal? I am sure you have an answer but I have no idea > what it is, as your proposal seems to defy the basic laws of economics. > Immediate deposit seems to be self defeating. What have I missed? > Here's what you have missed: Harnad, Stevan (2007) The Green Road to Open Access: A Leveraged Transition . In, Anna, Gacs (ed.) *The Culture of Periodicals from the Perspective of the Electronic Age. *, L'Harmattan, 99-105. *SUMMARY: *What the research community needs, urgently, is free online access (Open Access, OA) to its own peer-reviewed research output. Researchers can provide that in two ways: by publishing their articles in OA journals (Gold OA) or by continuing to publish in non-OA journals and self-archiving their final peer-reviewed drafts in their own OA Institutional Repositories (Green OA). OA self-archiving, once it is mandated by research institutions and funders, can reliably generate 100% Green OA. Gold OA requires journals to convert to OA publishing (which is not in the hands of the research community) and it also requires the funds to cover the Gold OA publication costs. With 100% Green OA, the research community's access and impact problems are already solved. If and when 100% Green OA should cause significant cancellation pressure (no one knows whether or when that will happen, because OA Green grows anarchically, article by article, not journal by journal) then the cancellation pressure will cause cost-cutting, downsizing and eventually a leveraged transition to OA (Gold) publishing on the part of journals. As subscription revenues shrink, institutional windfall savings from cancellations grow. If and when journal subscriptions become unsustainable, per-article publishing costs will be low enough, and institutional savings will be high enough to cover them, because publishing will have downsized to just peer-review service provision alone, offloading text-generation onto authors and access-provision and archiving onto the global network of OA Institutional Repositories. Green OA will have leveraged a transition to Gold OA. Harnad, Stevan (2010) No-Fault Peer Review Charges: The Price of Selectivity Need Not Be Access Denied or Delayed . *D-Lib Magazine*, 16, (7/8) *SUMMARY: *Plans by universities and research funders to pay the costs of Open Access Publishing ("Gold OA") are premature. Funds are short; 80% of journals (including virtually all the top journals) are still subscription-based, tying up the potential funds to pay for Gold OA; the asking price for Gold OA is still high; and there is concern that paying to publish may inflate acceptance rates and lower quality standards. What is needed now is for universities and funders to mandate OA self-archiving (of authors' final peer-reviewed drafts, immediately upon acceptance for publication) ("Green OA"). That will provide immediate OA; and if and when universal Green OA should go on to make subscriptions unsustainable (because users are satisfied with just the Green OA versions) that will in turn induce journals to cut costs (print edition, online edition, access-provision, archiving), downsize to just providing the service of peer review, and convert to the Gold OA cost-recovery model; meanwhile, the subscription cancellations will have released the funds to pay these residual service costs. The natural way to charge for the service of peer review then will be on a "no-fault basis," with the author's institution or funder paying for each round of refereeing, regardless of outcome (acceptance, revision/re-refereeing, or rejection). This will minimize cost while protecting against inflated acceptance rates and decline in quality standards. > At 01:50 PM 10/23/2013, you wrote: > > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 1:26 PM, David Wojick > wrote: > > The USA has the lead here, as far as major funder mandates are > concerned, and they have opted for a 12 month publisher embargo form of > green OA. I have several articles on this at > http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/author/dwojick/ > > Peter does not even discuss what is actually happening on the policy front. > > > On leads vs. lags and analysis vs argument, see: > > Revealing Dialogue on "CHORUS" with David Wojick, OSTI Consultant > > > The exchange is preceded by the following note (by me): > > > Note: David Wojick works > part time as the Senior Consultant for Innovation at OSTI, > the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, in the Office of > Science of the US Department of Energy. He has a PhD in logic and > philosophy of science, an MA in mathematical logic, and a BS in civil > engineering. In the exchanges below, he sounds [to me] very much like a > publishing interest lobbyist, but judge for yourself. He also turns out to > have a rather curious [and to me surprising] history in environmental > matters ? > > > The topic continued (and continues) to be discussed on the Society for > Scholarly Publishing's blog, "The Scholarly Kitchen," > where DW is a frequent contributor. > > DW: "Peter Suber is a leader of the OA movement. His article is an > argument, not an analysis. He seems to be oblivious to what is actually > going on?. Happy OA week." > > And a Happy OA week to DW too... > > Stevan Harnad > > At 12:50 PM 10/23/2013, you wrote: > > Dear David, > > Sorry, could you tell us why you have the opinion that the author of the > Guardian piece is oblivious to what is going on? What, in you eyes, is the > main thing he seems not aware of? > > Thank you, > > Jeroen Bosman > ----------------------------------------------- > Jeroen Bosman, subject librarian Geography&Geoscience > Utrecht University Library > email: j.bosman at uu.nl > twitter:@geolibrarianUBU / @jeroenbosman > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [ > mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] > On Behalf Of David Wojick > Sent: woensdag 23 oktober 2013 18:24 > To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU > Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] OA > > Peter Suber is a leader of the OA movement. His article is an argument, > not an analysis. He seems to be oblivious to what is actually going on. > > Happy OA week. > > David Wojick > > At 02:20 PM 10/22/2013, you wrote: > >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > > > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > > >I post this without comment. > > > > > > http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2013/oct/21/op > >en-access-myths-peter-suber-harvard > > > >But I would be interested to hear listmembers responses/reactions > > > >BW > > > >Quentin Burrell > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dwojick at CRAIGELLACHIE.US Wed Oct 23 15:06:20 2013 From: dwojick at CRAIGELLACHIE.US (David Wojick) Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 15:06:20 -0400 Subject: OA In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Oh I see, Stevan. The subscription journals go out of business, just as I thought. I was afraid I had missed something in the analysis. Glad we agree. To return to the original point, at this time the US Government has no interest in driving the subscription publishers out of business. David At 02:43 PM 10/23/2013, you wrote: >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 2:26 PM, David Wojick ><dwojick at craigellachie.us> wrote: > >As I understand it your position is that all published articles should be >immediately available for free. My question is why then anyone would >subscribe to a journal? I am sure you have an answer but I have no idea >what it is, as your proposal seems to defy the basic laws of economics. >Immediate deposit seems to be self defeating. What have I missed? > > >Here's what you have missed: > >Harnad, Stevan (2007) The Green Road >to Open Access: A Leveraged Transition. In, Anna, Gacs (ed.) The Culture >of Periodicals from the Perspective of the Electronic Age. , L'Harmattan, >99-105. > >SUMMARY: What the research community needs, urgently, is free online >access (Open Access, OA) to its own peer-reviewed research output. >Researchers can provide that in two ways: by publishing their articles in >OA journals (Gold OA) or by continuing to publish in non-OA journals and >self-archiving their final peer-reviewed drafts in their own OA >Institutional Repositories (Green OA). OA self-archiving, once it is >mandated by research institutions and funders, can reliably generate 100% >Green OA. Gold OA requires journals to convert to OA publishing (which is >not in the hands of the research community) and it also requires the funds >to cover the Gold OA publication costs. With 100% Green OA, the research >community's access and impact problems are already solved. If and when >100% Green OA should cause significant cancellation pressure (no one knows >whether or when that will happen, because OA Green grows anarchically, >article by article, not journal by journal) then the cancellation pressure >will cause cost-cutting, downsizing and eventually a leveraged transition >to OA (Gold) publishing on the part of journals. As subscription revenues >shrink, institutional windfall savings from cancellations grow. If and >when journal subscriptions become unsustainable, per-article publishing >costs will be low enough, and institutional savings will be high enough to >cover them, because publishing will have downsized to just peer-review >service provision alone, offloading text-generation onto authors and >access-provision and archiving onto the global network of OA Institutional >Repositories. Green OA will have leveraged a transition to Gold OA. > >Harnad, Stevan (2010) >No-Fault Peer Review >Charges: The Price of Selectivity Need Not Be Access Denied or Delayed. >D-Lib Magazine, 16, (7/8) > >SUMMARY: Plans by universities and research funders to pay the costs of >Open Access Publishing ("Gold OA") are premature. Funds are short; 80% of >journals (including virtually all the top journals) are still >subscription-based, tying up the potential funds to pay for Gold OA; the >asking price for Gold OA is still high; and there is concern that paying >to publish may inflate acceptance rates and lower quality standards. What >is needed now is for universities and funders to mandate OA self-archiving >(of authors' final peer-reviewed drafts, immediately upon acceptance for >publication) ("Green OA"). That will provide immediate OA; and if and when >universal Green OA should go on to make subscriptions unsustainable >(because users are satisfied with just the Green OA versions) that will in >turn induce journals to cut costs (print edition, online edition, >access-provision, archiving), downsize to just providing the service of >peer review, and convert to the Gold OA cost-recovery model; meanwhile, >the subscription cancellations will have released the funds to pay these >residual service costs. The natural way to charge for the service of peer >review then will be on a "no-fault basis," with the author's institution >or funder paying for each round of refereeing, regardless of outcome >(acceptance, revision/re-refereeing, or rejection). This will minimize >cost while protecting against inflated acceptance rates and decline in >quality standards. > > >At 01:50 PM 10/23/2013, you wrote: >>Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >>http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >> >>On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 1:26 PM, David Wojick >><dwojick at craigellachie.us > wrote: >> >>The USA has the lead here, as far as major funder mandates are concerned, >>and they have opted for a 12 month publisher embargo form of green OA. I >>have several articles on this at >>http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/author/dwojick/ >> >>Peter does not even discuss what is actually happening on the policy front. >> >> >>On leads vs. lags and analysis vs argument, see: >> >>Revealing >>Dialogue on "CHORUS" with David Wojick, OSTI Consultant >> >> >>The exchange is preceded by the following note (by me): >> >>Note: David Wojick works part >>time as the Senior Consultant for Innovation at >>OSTI, the Office of Scientific and Technical >>Information, in the Office of Science of the US Department of Energy. He >>has a PhD in logic and philosophy of science, an MA in mathematical >>logic, and a BS in civil engineering. In the exchanges below, he sounds >>[to me] very much like a publishing interest lobbyist, but judge for >>yourself. He also turns out to have a rather curious [and to me >>surprising] >>history in >>environmental matters >> >> >>The topic continued (and continues) to be discussed on the Society for >>Scholarly Publishing's blog, >>"The Scholarly Kitchen," where >>DW is a frequent contributor. >> >>DW: "Peter Suber is a leader of the OA movement. His article is an >>argument, not an analysis. He seems to be oblivious to what is actually >>going on . Happy OA week." >> >>And a Happy OA week to DW too... >> >>Stevan Harnad >> >>At 12:50 PM 10/23/2013, you wrote: >>>Dear David, >>>Sorry, could you tell us why you have the opinion that the author of the >>>Guardian piece is oblivious to what is going on? What, in you eyes, is >>>the main thing he seems not aware of? >>>Thank you, >>>Jeroen Bosman >>>----------------------------------------------- >>>Jeroen Bosman, subject librarian Geography&Geoscience >>>Utrecht University Library >>>email: j.bosman at uu.nl >>>twitter:@geolibrarianUBU / @jeroenbosman >>>----------------------------------------------------------------- >>>P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail >>> >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics >>>[ >>>mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] >>>On Behalf Of David Wojick >>>Sent: woensdag 23 oktober 2013 18:24 >>>To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU >>>Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] OA >>>Peter Suber is a leader of the OA movement. His article is an argument, >>>not an analysis. He seems to be oblivious to what is actually going on. >>>Happy OA week. >>>David Wojick >>>At 02:20 PM 10/22/2013, you wrote: >>> >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >>> > >>> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >>> >>> > >>> >I post this without comment. >>> > >>> >>> p> >>> http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2013/oct/21/op >>> >>> >en-access-myths-peter-suber-harvard >>> > >>> >But I would be interested to hear listmembers responses/reactions >>> > >>> >BW >>> > >>> >Quentin Burrell > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From amsciforum at GMAIL.COM Wed Oct 23 21:25:31 2013 From: amsciforum at GMAIL.COM (Stevan Harnad) Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 21:25:31 -0400 Subject: OA In-Reply-To: <6.2.0.14.2.20131023145735.04297038@pop.craigellachie.us> Message-ID: On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 3:06 PM, David Wojick wrote: > Oh I see, Stevan. The subscription journals go out of business, just as I > thought. I was afraid I had missed something in the analysis. Glad we agree. > > To return to the original point, at this time the US Government has no > interest in driving the subscription publishers out of business. > Downsizing to post-Green Fair-Gold is not going Out-of-Business. It is just evolving into Fair-Business. But perhaps that is not so obvious if one is lobbying for preserving the current revenue streams of the refereed journal publishing business... For effective Green mandates to prevail globally, the publishing tail must no longer be allowed to keep wagging the research dog (tax-payer-fed). I hope OSTI will also be hearing impartial advice as to what will be best for research, researchers, and the tax-payers' investment therein. Don't worry, though. Publishers will adapt; journals will survive (because peer review will survive, as a service) and everyone will get used to the new post-Green status quo. Stevan Harnad > At 02:43 PM 10/23/2013, you wrote: > > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 2:26 PM, David Wojick > wrote: > > As I understand it your position is that all published articles should > be immediately available for free. My question is why then anyone would > subscribe to a journal? I am sure you have an answer but I have no idea > what it is, as your proposal seems to defy the basic laws of economics. > Immediate deposit seems to be self defeating. What have I missed? > > > Here's what you have missed: > > Harnad, Stevan (2007) The Green Road to Open Access: A Leveraged > Transition . In, Anna, Gacs (ed.) The > Culture of Periodicals from the Perspective of the Electronic Age. , > L'Harmattan, 99-105. > > SUMMARY: What the research community needs, urgently, is free online > access (Open Access, OA) to its own peer-reviewed research output. > Researchers can provide that in two ways: by publishing their articles in > OA journals (Gold OA) or by continuing to publish in non-OA journals and > self-archiving their final peer-reviewed drafts in their own OA > Institutional Repositories (Green OA). OA self-archiving, once it is > mandated by research institutions and funders, can reliably generate 100% > Green OA. Gold OA requires journals to convert to OA publishing (which is > not in the hands of the research community) and it also requires the funds > to cover the Gold OA publication costs. With 100% Green OA, the research > community's access and impact problems are already solved. If and when 100% > Green OA should cause significant cancellation pressure (no one knows > whether or when that will happen, because OA Green grows anarchically, > article by article, not journal by journal) then the cancellation pressure > will cause cost-cutting, downsizing and eventually a leveraged transition > to OA (Gold) publishing on the part of journals. As subscription revenues > shrink, institutional windfall savings from cancellations grow. If and when > journal subscriptions become unsustainable, per-article publishing costs > will be low enough, and institutional savings will be high enough to cover > them, because publishing will have downsized to just peer-review service > provision alone, offloading text-generation onto authors and > access-provision and archiving onto the global network of OA Institutional > Repositories. Green OA will have leveraged a transition to Gold OA. > > Harnad, Stevan (2010) No-Fault Peer Review Charges: The Price of > Selectivity Need Not Be Access Denied or Delayed. > D-Lib Magazine, 16, (7/8) > > SUMMARY: Plans by universities and research funders to pay the costs of > Open Access Publishing ("Gold OA") are premature. Funds are short; 80% of > journals (including virtually all the top journals) are still > subscription-based, tying up the potential funds to pay for Gold OA; the > asking price for Gold OA is still high; and there is concern that paying to > publish may inflate acceptance rates and lower quality standards. What is > needed now is for universities and funders to mandate OA self-archiving (of > authors' final peer-reviewed drafts, immediately upon acceptance for > publication) ("Green OA"). That will provide immediate OA; and if and when > universal Green OA should go on to make subscriptions unsustainable > (because users are satisfied with just the Green OA versions) that will in > turn induce journals to cut costs (print edition, online edition, > access-provision, archiving), downsize to just providing the service of > peer review, and convert to the Gold OA cost-recovery model; meanwhile, the > subscription cancellations will have released the funds to pay these > residual service costs. The natural way to charge for the service of peer > review then will be on a "no-fault basis," with the author's institution or > funder paying for each round of refereeing, regardless of outcome > (acceptance, revision/re-refereeing, or rejection). This will minimize cost > while protecting against inflated acceptance rates and decline in quality > standards. > > > At 01:50 PM 10/23/2013, you wrote: > > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 1:26 PM, David Wojick > wrote: > The USA has the lead here, as far as major funder mandates are > concerned, and they have opted for a 12 month publisher embargo form of > green OA. I have several articles on this at > http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/author/dwojick/ > Peter does not even discuss what is actually happening on the policy front. > > > On leads vs. lags and analysis vs argument, see: > > Revealing Dialogue on "CHORUS" with David Wojick, OSTI Consultant > > > The exchange is preceded by the following note (by me): > > Note: David Wojick works > part time as the Senior Consultant for Innovation at OSTI, > the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, in the Office of > Science of the US Department of Energy. He has a PhD in logic and > philosophy of science, an MA in mathematical logic, and a BS in civil > engineering. In the exchanges below, he sounds [to me] very much like a > publishing interest lobbyist, but judge for yourself. He also turns out to > have a rather curious [and to me surprising] history in environmental > matters ? > > > The topic continued (and continues) to be discussed on the Society for > Scholarly Publishing's blog, "The Scholarly Kitchen," > where DW is a frequent contributor. > > DW: "Peter Suber is a leader of the OA movement. His article is an > argument, not an analysis. He seems to be oblivious to what is actually > going on?. Happy OA week." > > And a Happy OA week to DW too... > > Stevan Harnad > > At 12:50 PM 10/23/2013, you wrote: > > Dear David, > Sorry, could you tell us why you have the opinion that the author of the > Guardian piece is oblivious to what is going on? What, in you eyes, is the > main thing he seems not aware of? > Thank you, > Jeroen Bosman ----------------------------------------------- Jeroen > Bosman, subject librarian Geography&Geoscience Utrecht University Library email: > j.bosman at uu.nl twitter:@geolibrarianUBU / @jeroenbosman ----------------------------------------------------------------- > P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail > > -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics > [ mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] > On Behalf Of David Wojick Sent: woensdag 23 oktober 2013 18:24 To: > SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] OA > Peter Suber is a leader of the OA movement. His article is an argument, > not an analysis. He seems to be oblivious to what is actually going on. > Happy OA week. > David Wojick > At 02:20 PM 10/22/2013, you wrote: >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS > (for example unsubscribe): > > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > >I post this without comment. > > > > http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2013/oct/21/op >en-access-myths-peter-suber-harvard > > >But I would be interested to hear listmembers responses/reactions > >BW > > >Quentin Burrell > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dwojick at CRAIGELLACHIE.US Thu Oct 24 08:06:02 2013 From: dwojick at CRAIGELLACHIE.US (David Wojick) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 08:06:02 -0400 Subject: OA In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I fear we are talking past each other Stevan. I am talking about what is actually happening here, which is that the non-NIH US agencies are implementing the OSTP mandate for a 12 month delayed access program, just as NIH already does. If you know of an agency that is doing something else I would like to hear about it. Note that NIH has half of the Federal basic research budget so this is merely rounding out the existing program. The only big issue at this point is whether the non-NIH agencies will collect and post accepted manuscripts, as NIH does, but perhaps via SHARE repositories, or use CHORUS and link to the publisher websites. David On Oct 23, 2013, at 9:25 PM, Stevan Harnad wrote: > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 3:06 PM, David Wojick wrote: > > Oh I see, Stevan. The subscription journals go out of business, just as I thought. I was afraid I had missed something in the analysis. Glad we agree. > > To return to the original point, at this time the US Government has no interest in driving the subscription publishers out of business. > > Downsizing to post-Green Fair-Gold is not going Out-of-Business. It is just evolving into Fair-Business. > > But perhaps that is not so obvious if one is lobbying for preserving the current revenue streams of the refereed journal publishing business... > > For effective Green mandates to prevail globally, the publishing tail must no longer be allowed to keep wagging the research dog (tax-payer-fed). I hope OSTI will also be hearing impartial advice as to what will be best for research, researchers, and the tax-payers' investment therein. > > Don't worry, though. Publishers will adapt; journals will survive (because peer review will survive, as a service) and everyone will get used to the new post-Green status quo. > > Stevan Harnad > > > At 02:43 PM 10/23/2013, you wrote: >> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 2:26 PM, David Wojick wrote: >> >> As I understand it your position is that all published articles should be immediately available for free. My question is why then anyone would subscribe to a journal? I am sure you have an answer but I have no idea what it is, as your proposal seems to defy the basic laws of economics. Immediate deposit seems to be self defeating. What have I missed? >> >> >> Here's what you have missed: >> >> Harnad, Stevan (2007) The Green Road to Open Access: A Leveraged Transition. In, Anna, Gacs (ed.) The Culture of Periodicals from the Perspective of the Electronic Age. , L'Harmattan, 99-105. >> >> SUMMARY: What the research community needs, urgently, is free online access (Open Access, OA) to its own peer-reviewed research output. Researchers can provide that in two ways: by publishing their articles in OA journals (Gold OA) or by continuing to publish in non-OA journals and self-archiving their final peer-reviewed drafts in their own OA Institutional Repositories (Green OA). OA self-archiving, once it is mandated by research institutions and funders, can reliably generate 100% Green OA. Gold OA requires journals to convert to OA publishing (which is not in the hands of the research community) and it also requires the funds to cover the Gold OA publication costs. With 100% Green OA, the research community's access and impact problems are already solved. If and when 100% Green OA should cause significant cancellation pressure (no one knows whether or when that will happen, because OA Green grows anarchically, article by article, not journal by journal) then the cancellation pressure will cause cost-cutting, downsizing and eventually a leveraged transition to OA (Gold) publishing on the part of journals. As subscription revenues shrink, institutional windfall savings from cancellations grow. If and when journal subscriptions become unsustainable, per-article publishing costs will be low enough, and institutional savings will be high enough to cover them, because publishing will have downsized to just peer-review service provision alone, offloading text-generation onto authors and access-provision and archiving onto the global network of OA Institutional Repositories. Green OA will have leveraged a transition to Gold OA. >> >> Harnad, Stevan (2010) No-Fault Peer Review Charges: The Price of Selectivity Need Not Be Access Denied or Delayed. D-Lib Magazine, 16, (7/8) >> >> SUMMARY: Plans by universities and research funders to pay the costs of Open Access Publishing ("Gold OA") are premature. Funds are short; 80% of journals (including virtually all the top journals) are still subscription-based, tying up the potential funds to pay for Gold OA; the asking price for Gold OA is still high; and there is concern that paying to publish may inflate acceptance rates and lower quality standards. What is needed now is for universities and funders to mandate OA self-archiving (of authors' final peer-reviewed drafts, immediately upon acceptance for publication) ("Green OA"). That will provide immediate OA; and if and when universal Green OA should go on to make subscriptions unsustainable (because users are satisfied with just the Green OA versions) that will in turn induce journals to cut costs (print edition, online edition, access-provision, archiving), downsize to just providing the service of peer review, and convert to the Gold OA cost-recovery model; meanwhile, the subscription cancellations will have released the funds to pay these residual service costs. The natural way to charge for the service of peer review then will be on a "no-fault basis," with the author's institution or funder paying for each round of refereeing, regardless of outcome (acceptance, revision/re-refereeing, or rejection). This will minimize cost while protecting against inflated acceptance rates and decline in quality standards. >> >> >> At 01:50 PM 10/23/2013, you wrote: >>> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >>> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 1:26 PM, David Wojick wrote: >>> >>> The USA has the lead here, as far as major funder mandates are concerned, and they have opted for a 12 month publisher embargo form of green OA. I have several articles on this at >>> http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/author/dwojick/ >>> Peter does not even discuss what is actually happening on the policy front. >>> >> >> On leads vs. lags and analysis vs argument, see: >> >> Revealing Dialogue on "CHORUS" with David Wojick, OSTI Consultant >> >> >> The exchange is preceded by the following note (by me): >> >> Note: David Wojick works part time as the Senior Consultant for Innovation at OSTI, the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, in the Office of Science of the US Department of Energy. He has a PhD in logic and philosophy of science, an MA in mathematical logic, and a BS in civil engineering. In the exchanges below, he sounds [to me] very much like a publishing interest lobbyist, but judge for yourself. He also turns out to have a rather curious [and to me surprising] history in environmental matters? >> >> >> The topic continued (and continues) to be discussed on the Society for Scholarly Publishing's blog, "The Scholarly Kitchen," where DW is a frequent contributor. >> >> DW: "Peter Suber is a leader of the OA movement. His article is an argument, not an analysis. He seems to be oblivious to what is actually going on?. Happy OA week." >> >> And a Happy OA week to DW too... >> >> Stevan Harnad >> >> At 12:50 PM 10/23/2013, you wrote: >>> >>> Dear David, >>> Sorry, could you tell us why you have the opinion that the author of the Guardian piece is oblivious to what is going on? What, in you eyes, is the main thing he seems not aware of? >>> Thank you, >>> Jeroen Bosman >>> ----------------------------------------------- >>> Jeroen Bosman, subject librarian Geography&Geoscience >>> Utrecht University Library >>> email: j.bosman at uu.nl >>> twitter:@geolibrarianUBU / @jeroenbosman >>> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >>> P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [ mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of David Wojick >>> Sent: woensdag 23 oktober 2013 18:24 >>> To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU >>> Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] OA >>> Peter Suber is a leader of the OA movement. His article is an argument, not an analysis. He seems to be oblivious to what is actually going on. >>> Happy OA week. >>> David Wojick >>> At 02:20 PM 10/22/2013, you wrote: >>> >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >>> > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >>> > >>> >I post this without comment. >>> > >>> > http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2013/oct/21/op >>> >en-access-myths-peter-suber-harvard >>> > >>> >But I would be interested to hear listmembers responses/reactions >>> > >>> >BW >>> > >>> >Quentin Burrell > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nancy.g.faget.civ at MAIL.MIL Thu Oct 24 08:33:18 2013 From: nancy.g.faget.civ at MAIL.MIL (Faget, Nancy G CIV (US)) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 12:33:18 +0000 Subject: Federal agency OA plans (UNCLASSIFIED) Message-ID: Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Does anyone know where I can find the various Federal agency's open access plans that were submitted to OSTP? Nancy Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 5573 bytes Desc: not available URL: From akrineh at ILSTU.EDU Thu Oct 24 09:08:22 2013 From: akrineh at ILSTU.EDU (Rinehart, Amanda Kay) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 13:08:22 +0000 Subject: Federal agency OA plans (UNCLASSIFIED) In-Reply-To: <016C5562B965C04993EC367AA2A0DD9656D2138B@umechphj.easf.csd.disa.mil> Message-ID: Do you want the actual plans or the requirements for the plans? The actual plans are submitted with the grant proposals and are typically confidential. Some librarians have been able to work with their Office of Sponsored Programs to get access to the plans, but it's pretty rare. More to the point, Principle Investigators (PI) are the only ones who get the comments from the reviewers, which may be more revealing than the plans themselves. Occasionally a PI shares this information with me as we work to meet the reviewer suggestions. For guidance, the following links may be helpful: NSF Data Management Plan http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/dmp.jsp NIH Data Sharing Policy http://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/data_sharing/data_sharing_guidance.htm NEH Data Sharing Policy http://www.neh.gov/files/grants/data_management_plans_2013.pdf Thanks, Amanda Rinehart Data Librarian Illinois State University -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Faget, Nancy G CIV (US) Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 7:33 AM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Federal agency OA plans (UNCLASSIFIED) Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Does anyone know where I can find the various Federal agency's open access plans that were submitted to OSTP? Nancy Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE From akrineh at ILSTU.EDU Thu Oct 24 09:09:49 2013 From: akrineh at ILSTU.EDU (Rinehart, Amanda Kay) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 13:09:49 +0000 Subject: Federal agency OA plans (UNCLASSIFIED) In-Reply-To: <016C5562B965C04993EC367AA2A0DD9656D2138B@umechphj.easf.csd.disa.mil> Message-ID: Many apologies for my last post - I read the message wrong. I read it as Data Management Plans, not Open Access Plans. Again, sorry to mis-post. Thanks, Amanda Rinehart Data Librarian Illinois State University -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Faget, Nancy G CIV (US) Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 7:33 AM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Federal agency OA plans (UNCLASSIFIED) Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Does anyone know where I can find the various Federal agency's open access plans that were submitted to OSTP? Nancy Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE From dwojick at CRAIGELLACHIE.US Thu Oct 24 09:38:01 2013 From: dwojick at CRAIGELLACHIE.US (David Wojick) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 09:38:01 -0400 Subject: Federal agency OA plans (UNCLASSIFIED) In-Reply-To: <016C5562B965C04993EC367AA2A0DD9656D2138B@umechphj.easf.csd.disa.mil> Message-ID: At this point the agency plans are not publicly available for comment. Would that they were. I think OSTP is trying to craft a policy position based on the various draft plans. This will not be easy, as every agency is different. David Wojick On Oct 24, 2013, at 8:33 AM, "Faget, Nancy G CIV (US)" wrote: > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > Classification: UNCLASSIFIED > Caveats: NONE > > Does anyone know where I can find the various Federal agency's open access > plans that were submitted to OSTP? > > Nancy > > > > Classification: UNCLASSIFIED > Caveats: NONE > From amsciforum at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 24 10:42:02 2013 From: amsciforum at GMAIL.COM (Stevan Harnad) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 10:42:02 -0400 Subject: OA In-Reply-To: <96361560-A492-437F-A380-5DD4D6CC06C7@craigellachie.us> Message-ID: Apologies to the SIGMETRICS list if this thread is of insufficient interest. I propose moving it to the sparc-oaforum. David Wojick wrote: > I fear we are talking past each other Stevan. > No, we are not talking past. There are simply three different topics: (1) Peter Suber's understanding of OA (versus your own, David), (2) practical considerations about how the OSTP mandate should be implemented, and (3) speculations about the future of refereed journal publishing > I am talking about what is actually happening here, which is that the > non-NIH US agencies are implementing the OSTP mandate for a 12 month > delayed access program, just as NIH already does. > That OSTPmandates providing OA within a year (at most) is well-known. How the mandates will be formulated and implemented by each agency is definitely not well-known, nor even fully decided as yet: it is still being worked on, agency by agency (and I'm sure Peter Suber, Heather Joseph, Alma Swan and others with expertise in OA and OA mandates are being consulted). The most important practical implementation issues are: *#1* *Who must make the paper OA?* the fundee or the publisher? Obviously for a uniform, systematically verifiable mandate,* it must be the fundee, the one bound by the mandate*, and not the publisher, the one that is in conflict of interest with the mandate, and not bound to comply with it (except if paid extra money). *#2 Where must the paper be made OA? *Here again, for a uniform, systematically verifiable mandate, it must be in one verifiable locus, and the only locus shared by all fundees, all funders and all institutions (and for both Green and Gold OA) is *the fundee's own institutional repository*- from whence it can be exported or harvested to other sites, such as PubMed Central, if and when needed. *#3* *When must the paper be made OA*? (The mandate already stipulates this: within 12 months of publication at the latest.) *#4 When must the paper be deposited? *This is the most important question of all, and carries with it the answer to the other questions:* *the fundee must deposit the final, refereed, accepted draft,* immediately upon acceptance for publication -- not 12 months after publication -- *irrespective of whether it is published in a subscription journal or a Gold OA journal, irrespective of whether the deposit is immediately made OA or embargoed, and irrespective of whether the journal endorses immediate OA or imposes an OA embargo. * * It is *#4* that holds the key to a successful and effective OA mandate, the Li?ge model "Immediate-Deposit/Optional-Access" model (which Peter Suber calls the "Dual Deposit/Release" model). The model has been tried and tested, and has already proven to be more effective than any other mandate model, and is both compatible with and subsumes all the other mandate models. The key to the Li?ge model's success is that it is convergent and systematic rather than divergent and anarchic, mobilizing the *universal source of all research, *funded and unfunded, Green, Grey and Gold, across all disciplines -- *the fundee's own institution* -- to monitor and ensure timely compliance as well as to tide over any embargo with the repository's facilitated copy-request Button. All of this depends on requiring deposit, by the fundee, in the institutional repository, *immediately upon acceptance for publication*, which is the only universal, objective, verifiable calendar date of reference for timely compliance. (Publication dates diverge wildly from both the acceptance date and the actual date of appearance of the journal. Whereas a 12 month embargo is the number to beat, publication date can lead to an uncertainty of as much as two years or more.) Gargouri, Y., Lariviere, V., Gingras, Y., Brody, T., Carr, L., & Harnad, S. (2012a). Testing the Finch Hypothesis on Green OA Mandate Ineffectiveness. *arXiv preprint* arXiv:1210.8174. http://arxiv.org/pdf/1210.8174 Rentier, B., & Thirion, P. (2011). *The Li?ge ORBi model: Mandatory policy without rights retention but linked to assessment processes*. http://orbi.ulg.ac.be/handle/2268/102031 > If you know of an agency that is doing something else I would like to hear > about it. Note that NIH has half of the Federal basic research budget so > this is merely rounding out the existing program. > No U.S. funding agency has yet adopted the immediate-deposit clause, but it has been adopted by the FNRSin Belgium, and has been proposed by HEFCEin the UK. It is also implicit (though not yet implemented or enforced) in the Harvardmandate model. > The only big issue at this point is whether the non-NIH agencies will > collect and post accepted manuscripts, as NIH does, but perhaps via SHARE > repositories, or use CHORUS and link to the publisher websites. > You leave out the most important option of all, which is that all papers are deposited in the fundee's own institutional repository (and exported if/when desired, to institution-external repositories). And of course on no account should the depositor or the locus be the publisher (although of course the institutional repository can and will also link to the version on the publisher's site, whether subscription or Gold, OA or embargoed). I would like to draw everyone's attention again to the fact that David Wojick is pressing for (and takes into account) only the solution that favors the interests of the refereed journal publishing industry, not the interests of research, researchers, their institutions, their funders, and the tax-paying public that pays for it all. David seems to have OSTI's ear (I am not sure why) but I hope that OSTI listens also to those who represent the interests of the research community rather than the publishing community. And I hope all the other US funding agencies are likewise taking advice on implementation from those who represent the interests of the research community rather than the publishing community. *Stevan Harnad* On Oct 23, 2013, at 9:25 PM, Stevan Harnad wrote: > > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 3:06 PM, David Wojick < > dwojick at craigellachie.us> wrote: > > >> Oh I see, Stevan. The subscription journals go out of business, just as >> I thought. I was afraid I had missed something in the analysis. Glad we >> agree. >> >> To return to the original point, at this time the US Government has no >> interest in driving the subscription publishers out of business. >> > > Downsizing to post-Green Fair-Gold is not going Out-of-Business. It is > just evolving into Fair-Business. > > But perhaps that is not so obvious if one is lobbying for preserving the > current revenue streams of the refereed journal publishing business... > > For effective Green mandates to prevail globally, the publishing tail must > no longer be allowed to keep wagging the research dog (tax-payer-fed). I > hope OSTI will also be hearing impartial advice as to what will be best for > research, researchers, and the tax-payers' investment therein. > > Don't worry, though. Publishers will adapt; journals will survive (because > peer review will survive, as a service) and everyone will get used to the > new post-Green status quo. > > Stevan Harnad > > >> At 02:43 PM 10/23/2013, you wrote: >> >> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 2:26 PM, David Wojick < >> dwojick at craigellachie.us > wrote: >> >> As I understand it your position is that all published articles should >> be immediately available for free. My question is why then anyone would >> subscribe to a journal? I am sure you have an answer but I have no idea >> what it is, as your proposal seems to defy the basic laws of economics. >> Immediate deposit seems to be self defeating. What have I missed? >> >> >> Here's what you have missed: >> >> Harnad, Stevan (2007) The Green Road to Open Access: A Leveraged >> Transition . In, Anna, Gacs (ed.) >> The Culture of Periodicals from the Perspective of the Electronic Age. , >> L'Harmattan, 99-105. >> >> SUMMARY: What the research community needs, urgently, is free online >> access (Open Access, OA) to its own peer-reviewed research output. >> Researchers can provide that in two ways: by publishing their articles in >> OA journals (Gold OA) or by continuing to publish in non-OA journals and >> self-archiving their final peer-reviewed drafts in their own OA >> Institutional Repositories (Green OA). OA self-archiving, once it is >> mandated by research institutions and funders, can reliably generate 100% >> Green OA. Gold OA requires journals to convert to OA publishing (which is >> not in the hands of the research community) and it also requires the funds >> to cover the Gold OA publication costs. With 100% Green OA, the research >> community's access and impact problems are already solved. If and when 100% >> Green OA should cause significant cancellation pressure (no one knows >> whether or when that will happen, because OA Green grows anarchically, >> article by article, not journal by journal) then the cancellation pressure >> will cause cost-cutting, downsizing and eventually a leveraged transition >> to OA (Gold) publishing on the part of journals. As subscription revenues >> shrink, institutional windfall savings from cancellations grow. If and when >> journal subscriptions become unsustainable, per-article publishing costs >> will be low enough, and institutional savings will be high enough to cover >> them, because publishing will have downsized to just peer-review service >> provision alone, offloading text-generation onto authors and >> access-provision and archiving onto the global network of OA Institutional >> Repositories. Green OA will have leveraged a transition to Gold OA. >> >> Harnad, Stevan (2010) No-Fault Peer Review Charges: The Price of >> Selectivity Need Not Be Access Denied or Delayed. >> D-Lib Magazine, 16, (7/8) >> >> SUMMARY: Plans by universities and research funders to pay the costs of >> Open Access Publishing ("Gold OA") are premature. Funds are short; 80% of >> journals (including virtually all the top journals) are still >> subscription-based, tying up the potential funds to pay for Gold OA; the >> asking price for Gold OA is still high; and there is concern that paying to >> publish may inflate acceptance rates and lower quality standards. What is >> needed now is for universities and funders to mandate OA self-archiving (of >> authors' final peer-reviewed drafts, immediately upon acceptance for >> publication) ("Green OA"). That will provide immediate OA; and if and when >> universal Green OA should go on to make subscriptions unsustainable >> (because users are satisfied with just the Green OA versions) that will in >> turn induce journals to cut costs (print edition, online edition, >> access-provision, archiving), downsize to just providing the service of >> peer review, and convert to the Gold OA cost-recovery model; meanwhile, the >> subscription cancellations will have released the funds to pay these >> residual service costs. The natural way to charge for the service of peer >> review then will be on a "no-fault basis," with the author's institution or >> funder paying for each round of refereeing, regardless of outcome >> (acceptance, revision/re-refereeing, or rejection). This will minimize cost >> while protecting against inflated acceptance rates and decline in quality >> standards. >> >> >> At 01:50 PM 10/23/2013, you wrote: >> >> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 1:26 PM, David Wojick < >> dwojick at craigellachie.us > wrote: >> The USA has the lead here, as far as major funder mandates are >> concerned, and they have opted for a 12 month publisher embargo form of >> green OA. I have several articles on this at >> http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/author/dwojick/ >> Peter does not even discuss what is actually happening on the policy >> front. >> >> >> On leads vs. lags and analysis vs argument, see: >> >> Revealing Dialogue on "CHORUS" with David Wojick, OSTI Consultant >> >> >> The exchange is preceded by the following note (by me): >> >> Note: David Wojick works >> part time as the Senior Consultant for Innovation at OSTI, >> the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, in the Office of >> Science of the US Department of Energy. He has a PhD in logic and >> philosophy of science, an MA in mathematical logic, and a BS in civil >> engineering. In the exchanges below, he sounds [to me] very much like a >> publishing interest lobbyist, but judge for yourself. He also turns out to >> have a rather curious [and to me surprising] history in environmental >> matters ? >> >> >> The topic continued (and continues) to be discussed on the Society for >> Scholarly Publishing's blog, "The Scholarly Kitchen," >> where DW is a frequent contributor. >> >> DW: "Peter Suber is a leader of the OA movement. His article is an >> argument, not an analysis. He seems to be oblivious to what is actually >> going on?. Happy OA week." >> >> And a Happy OA week to DW too... >> >> Stevan Harnad >> >> At 12:50 PM 10/23/2013, you wrote: >> >> Dear David, >> Sorry, could you tell us why you have the opinion that the author of the >> Guardian piece is oblivious to what is going on? What, in you eyes, is the >> main thing he seems not aware of? >> Thank you, >> Jeroen Bosman ----------------------------------------------- Jeroen >> Bosman, subject librarian Geography&Geoscience Utrecht University >> Library email: j.bosman at uu.nl twitter:@geolibrarianUBU / >> @jeroenbosman ----------------------------------------------------------------- >> P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail >> >> -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on >> Metrics [ >> mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU ] On >> Behalf Of David Wojick Sent: woensdag 23 oktober 2013 18:24 To: >> SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] OA >> Peter Suber is a leader of the OA movement. His article is an argument, >> not an analysis. He seems to be oblivious to what is actually going on. >> Happy OA week. >> David Wojick >> At 02:20 PM 10/22/2013, you wrote: >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS >> (for example unsubscribe): > >> >> >> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > >I post this without >> comment. > > >> >> http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2013/oct/21/op >en-access-myths-peter-suber-harvard >> > >But I would be interested to hear listmembers responses/reactions > >BW >> > >Quentin Burrell >> >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dwojick at CRAIGELLACHIE.US Thu Oct 24 11:55:39 2013 From: dwojick at CRAIGELLACHIE.US (David Wojick) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 11:55:39 -0400 Subject: OA In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Stevan, I am well aware of your vision. I have read your NRC submission. It just does not happen to be what the US Government is implementing. The Brits wanted the US to follow them, but that too is not happening. The situation is as I describe it. David At 10:42 AM 10/24/2013, you wrote: >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >Apologies to the SIGMETRICS list if this thread is of insufficient >interest. I propose moving it to the sparc-oaforum. > >David Wojick wrote: > >I fear we are talking past each other Stevan. > > >No, we are not talking past. There are simply three different topics: > >(1) Peter Suber's understanding of OA (versus your own, David), >(2) practical considerations about how the OSTP mandate should be >implemented, >and >(3) speculations about the future of refereed journal publishing > >I am talking about what is actually happening here, which is that the >non-NIH US agencies are implementing the OSTP mandate for a 12 month >delayed access program, just as NIH already does. > > >That >OSTP >mandates providing OA within a year (at most) is well-known. > >How the mandates will be formulated and implemented by each agency is >definitely not well-known, nor even fully decided as yet: it is still >being worked on, agency by agency (and I'm sure Peter Suber, Heather >Joseph, Alma Swan and others with expertise in OA and OA mandates are >being consulted). > >The most important practical implementation issues are: > >#1 Who must make the paper OA? the fundee or the publisher? Obviously for >a uniform, systematically verifiable mandate, it must be the fundee, the >one bound by the mandate, and not the publisher, the one that is in >conflict of interest with the mandate, and not bound to comply with it >(except if paid extra money). > >#2 Where must the paper be made OA? Here again, for a uniform, >systematically verifiable mandate, it must be in one verifiable locus, and >the only locus shared by all fundees, all funders and all institutions >(and for both Green and Gold OA) is the fundee's own institutional >repository - from whence it can be exported or harvested to other sites, >such as PubMed Central, if and when needed. > >#3 When must the paper be made OA? (The mandate already stipulates this: >within 12 months of publication at the latest.) > >#4 When must the paper be deposited? This is the most important question >of all, and carries with it the answer to the other questions: the fundee >must deposit the final, refereed, accepted draft, immediately upon >acceptance for publication -- not 12 months after publication -- >irrespective of whether it is published in a subscription journal or a >Gold OA journal, irrespective of whether the deposit is immediately made >OA or embargoed, and irrespective of whether the journal endorses >immediate OA or imposes an OA embargo. > >It is #4 that holds the key to a successful and effective OA mandate, the >Li?ge model "Immediate-Deposit/Optional-Access" model (which Peter Suber >calls the "Dual Deposit/Release" model). The model has been tried and >tested, and has already proven to be more effective than any other mandate >model, and is both compatible with and subsumes all the other mandate models. > >The key to the Li?ge model's success is that it is convergent and >systematic rather than divergent and anarchic, mobilizing the universal >source of all research, funded and unfunded, Green, Grey and Gold, across >all disciplines -- the fundee's own institution -- to monitor and ensure >timely compliance as well as to tide over any embargo with the >repository's facilitated copy-request Button. > >All of this depends on requiring deposit, by the fundee, in the >institutional repository, immediately upon acceptance for publication, >which is the only universal, objective, verifiable calendar date of >reference for timely compliance. (Publication dates diverge wildly from >both the acceptance date and the actual date of appearance of the journal. >Whereas a 12 month embargo is the number to beat, publication date can >lead to an uncertainty of as much as two years or more.) > >Gargouri, Y., Lariviere, V., Gingras, Y., Brody, T., Carr, L., & Harnad, >S. (2012a). Testing the Finch Hypothesis on Green OA Mandate >Ineffectiveness. arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.8174. >http://arxiv.org/pdf/1210.8174 > > >Rentier, B., & Thirion, P. (2011). The Li?ge ORBi model: Mandatory policy >without rights retention but linked to assessment processes. >http://orbi.ulg.ac.be/handle/2268/102031 > >If you know of an agency that is doing something else I would like to hear >about it. Note that NIH has half of the Federal basic research budget so >this is merely rounding out the existing program. > > >No U.S. funding agency has yet adopted the immediate-deposit clause, but >it has been adopted by the >FNRS in >Belgium, and has been proposed by >HEFCE >in the UK. It is also implicit (though not yet implemented or enforced) in >the >Harvard >mandate model. > >The only big issue at this point is whether the non-NIH agencies will >collect and post accepted manuscripts, as NIH does, but perhaps via SHARE >repositories, or use CHORUS and link to the publisher websites. > > >You leave out the most important option of all, which is that all papers >are deposited in the fundee's own institutional repository (and exported >if/when desired, to institution-external repositories). > >And of course on no account should the depositor or the locus be the >publisher (although of course the institutional repository can and will >also link to the version on the publisher's site, whether subscription or >Gold, OA or embargoed). > >I would like to draw everyone's attention again to the fact that David >Wojick is pressing for (and takes into account) only the solution that >favors the interests of the refereed journal publishing industry, not the >interests of research, researchers, their institutions, their funders, and >the tax-paying public that pays for it all. > >David seems to have OSTI's ear (I am not sure why) but I hope that OSTI >listens also to those who represent the interests of the research >community rather than the publishing community. > >And I hope all the other US funding agencies are likewise taking advice on >implementation from those who represent the interests of the research >community rather than the publishing community. > >Stevan Harnad > >On Oct 23, 2013, at 9:25 PM, Stevan Harnad ><amsciforum at GMAIL.COM> wrote: > >>Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >>http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >> >>On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 3:06 PM, David Wojick >><dwojick at craigellachie.us> wrote: >> >>Oh I see, Stevan. The subscription journals go out of business, just as I >>thought. I was afraid I had missed something in the analysis. Glad we agree. >> >>To return to the original point, at this time the US Government has no >>interest in driving the subscription publishers out of business. >> >> >>Downsizing to post-Green Fair-Gold is not going Out-of-Business. It is >>just evolving into Fair-Business. >> >>But perhaps that is not so obvious if one is lobbying for preserving the >>current revenue streams of the refereed journal publishing business... >> >>For effective Green mandates to prevail globally, the publishing tail >>must no longer be allowed to keep wagging the research dog >>(tax-payer-fed). I hope OSTI will also be hearing impartial advice as to >>what will be best for research, researchers, and the tax-payers' >>investment therein. >> >>Don't worry, though. Publishers will adapt; journals will survive >>(because peer review will survive, as a service) and everyone will get >>used to the new post-Green status quo. >> >>Stevan Harnad >> >> >>At 02:43 PM 10/23/2013, you wrote: >>>Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >>>http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >>>On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 2:26 PM, David >>>Wojick <dwojick at craigellachie.us > wrote: >>> >>>As I understand it your position is that all published articles should >>>be immediately available for free. My question is why then anyone would >>>subscribe to a journal? I am sure you have an answer but I have no idea >>>what it is, as your proposal seems to defy the basic laws of economics. >>>Immediate deposit seems to be self defeating. What have I missed? >>> >>> >>>Here's what you have missed: >>> >>>Harnad, Stevan (2007) The Green Road >>>to Open Access: A Leveraged Transition. In, Anna, Gacs (ed.) The Culture >>>of Periodicals from the Perspective of the Electronic Age. , >>>L'Harmattan, 99-105. >>>SUMMARY: What the research community needs, urgently, is free online >>>access (Open Access, OA) to its own peer-reviewed research output. >>>Researchers can provide that in two ways: by publishing their articles >>>in OA journals (Gold OA) or by continuing to publish in non-OA journals >>>and self-archiving their final peer-reviewed drafts in their own OA >>>Institutional Repositories (Green OA). OA self-archiving, once it is >>>mandated by research institutions and funders, can reliably generate >>>100% Green OA. Gold OA requires journals to convert to OA publishing >>>(which is not in the hands of the research community) and it also >>>requires the funds to cover the Gold OA publication costs. With 100% >>>Green OA, the research community's access and impact problems are >>>already solved. If and when 100% Green OA should cause significant >>>cancellation pressure (no one knows whether or when that will happen, >>>because OA Green grows anarchically, article by article, not journal by >>>journal) then the cancellation pressure will cause cost-cutting, >>>downsizing and eventually a leveraged transition to OA (Gold) publishing >>>on the part of journals. As subscription revenues shrink, institutional >>>windfall savings from cancellations grow. If and when journal >>>subscriptions become unsustainable, per-article publishing costs will be >>>low enough, and institutional savings will be high enough to cover them, >>>because publishing will have downsized to just peer-review service >>>provision alone, offloading text-generation onto authors and >>>access-provision and archiving onto the global network of OA >>>Institutional Repositories. Green OA will have leveraged a transition to >>>Gold OA. >>> >>>Harnad, Stevan (2010) >>>No-Fault Peer >>>Review Charges: The Price of Selectivity Need Not Be Access Denied or >>>Delayed. D-Lib Magazine, 16, (7/8) >>>SUMMARY: Plans by universities and research funders to pay the costs of >>>Open Access Publishing ("Gold OA") are premature. Funds are short; 80% >>>of journals (including virtually all the top journals) are still >>>subscription-based, tying up the potential funds to pay for Gold OA; the >>>asking price for Gold OA is still high; and there is concern that paying >>>to publish may inflate acceptance rates and lower quality standards. >>>What is needed now is for universities and funders to mandate OA >>>self-archiving (of authors' final peer-reviewed drafts, immediately upon >>>acceptance for publication) ("Green OA"). That will provide immediate >>>OA; and if and when universal Green OA should go on to make >>>subscriptions unsustainable (because users are satisfied with just the >>>Green OA versions) that will in turn induce journals to cut costs (print >>>edition, online edition, access-provision, archiving), downsize to just >>>providing the service of peer review, and convert to the Gold OA >>>cost-recovery model; meanwhile, the subscription cancellations will have >>>released the funds to pay these residual service costs. The natural way >>>to charge for the service of peer review then will be on a "no-fault >>>basis," with the author's institution or funder paying for each round of >>>refereeing, regardless of outcome (acceptance, revision/re-refereeing, >>>or rejection). This will minimize cost while protecting against inflated >>>acceptance rates and decline in quality standards. >>> >>> >>>At 01:50 PM 10/23/2013, you wrote: >>>>Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >>>>http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >>>>On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 1:26 PM, David >>>>Wojick <dwojick at craigellachie.us > wrote: >>>> >>>>The USA has the lead here, as far as major funder mandates are >>>>concerned, and they have opted for a 12 month publisher embargo form of >>>>green OA. I have several articles on this at >>>>http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/author/dwojick/ >>>> >>>>Peter does not even discuss what is actually happening on the policy front. >>> >>>On leads vs. lags and analysis vs argument, see: >>> >>>Revealing >>>Dialogue on "CHORUS" with David Wojick, OSTI Consultant >>> >>> >>>The exchange is preceded by the following note (by me): >>> >>>Note: David Wojick works part >>>time as the Senior Consultant for Innovation at >>>OSTI, the Office of Scientific and Technical >>>Information, in the Office of Science of the US Department of Energy. He >>>has a PhD in logic and philosophy of science, an MA in mathematical >>>logic, and a BS in civil engineering. In the exchanges below, he sounds >>>[to me] very much like a publishing interest lobbyist, but judge for >>>yourself. He also turns out to have a rather curious [and to me >>>surprising] >>>history in >>>environmental matters >>> >>> >>>The topic continued (and continues) to be discussed on the Society for >>>Scholarly Publishing's blog, >>>"The Scholarly Kitchen," >>>where DW is a frequent contributor. >>> >>>DW: "Peter Suber is a leader of the OA movement. His article is an >>>argument, not an analysis. He seems to be oblivious to what is actually >>>going on . Happy OA week." >>> >>>And a Happy OA week to DW too... >>> >>>Stevan Harnad >>> >>>At 12:50 PM 10/23/2013, you wrote: >>>>Dear David, >>>>Sorry, could you tell us why you have the opinion that the author of >>>>the Guardian piece is oblivious to what is going on? What, in you eyes, >>>>is the main thing he seems not aware of? >>>>Thank you, >>>>Jeroen Bosman >>>>----------------------------------------------- >>>>Jeroen Bosman, subject librarian Geography&Geoscience >>>>Utrecht University Library >>>>email: j.bosman at uu.nl >>>>twitter:@geolibrarianUBU / @jeroenbosman >>>>----------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail >>>>-----Original Message----- >>>>From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics >>>>[ >>>>mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] >>>>On Behalf Of David Wojick >>>>Sent: woensdag 23 oktober 2013 18:24 >>>>To: >>>>SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU >>>>Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] OA >>>>Peter Suber is a leader of the OA movement. His article is an argument, >>>>not an analysis. He seems to be oblivious to what is actually going on. >>>>Happy OA week. >>>>David Wojick >>>>At 02:20 PM 10/22/2013, you wrote: >>>> >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >>>> > >>>> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >>>> >>>> > >>>> >I post this without comment. >>>> > >>>> >>>> op> >>>> http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2013/oct/21/op >>>> >>>> >en-access-myths-peter-suber-harvard >>>> > >>>> >But I would be interested to hear listmembers responses/reactions >>>> > >>>> >BW >>>> > >>>> >Quentin Burrell >> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From amsciforum at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 24 13:32:13 2013 From: amsciforum at GMAIL.COM (Stevan Harnad) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 13:32:13 -0400 Subject: OA In-Reply-To: <6.2.0.14.2.20131024114555.05ba7cd8@pop.craigellachie.us> Message-ID: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:55 AM, David Wojick wrote: Stevan, I am well aware of your vision. I have read your NRC submission. It > just does not happen to be what the US Government is implementing. > It may not be what is being implemented at OSTI, where you are advising, but have you read what each of the other agencies is doing? > The Brits wanted the US to follow them, but that too is not happening. > And a good thing too, since the Finch/RCUK Policy U-Turn was a disaster. But HEFCEand BISnow look to be fixing that... > The situation is as I describe it. > Perhaps at OSTI. The rest remains to be seen. The OA movement has won some and lost some, across the years, but it's not over till it's over... (1994) A Subversive Proposal (2001) The Self-Archiving Initiative (2002) The Budapest Open Access Initiative (2004) Memorandum to UK To UK Government Science and Technology Select Committee Select Committee on Science and Technology Written Evidence (2007). No Need for Canadian PubMed Central: CIHR Should Mandate IR Deposit . (2011) What Is To Be Done About Public Access to Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Publications Resulting From Federally Funded Research? (Response to US OSTP RFI). (2011) Comments on Open Access FAQ of German Alliance of Scientific Organisations (Allianz der deutschen Wissenschaftsorganisationen). (2012) Digital Research: How and Why the RCUK Open Access Policy Needs to Be Revised . Digital Research 2012. (2013). Response to HEFCE REF OA Policy Consultation. HEFCE. (2013). Comments on HEFCE/REF Open Access Mandate Proposal. Open access and submissions to the REF post-2014 (2013) Evidence to House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee on Open Access . House of Lords Science and Technology Committee on Open Access, Winter Issue, 119-123. (2013) Evidence to BIS Select Committee Inquiry on Open Access. Written Evidence to BIS Select Committee Inquiry on Open Access, Winter Issue (2013). 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URL: From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Sun Oct 27 16:17:56 2013 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 20:17:56 +0000 Subject: Papers of interest to readers of SIG-Metrics List Message-ID: *View Full Record: http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=Alerting&SrcApp=Alerting&DestApp=WOS&DestLinkType=FullRecord;UT=WOS:000324275600001 *Order Full Text [ ] Title: Scientific collaboration as a window and a door into North Korea Authors: Shelton, RD; Lewison, G Author Full Names: Shelton, R. D.; Lewison, Grant Source: SCIENTOMETRICS, 97 (1):3-11; 10.1007/s11192-012-0946-8 OCT 2013 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: North Korea, Universities, Collaboration, Scientific output Abstract: The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) is one of the world's most secretive and reclusive states. In scientometrics, even the United Nations, which compiles data from every country of the world, has been able to do little beyond counting the few scientific papers made publicly available (UNESCO 2010). The world could benefit from knowing more about North Korean science, which is quite well developed-witness all the concern about their nuclear energy and rocket launches. Here an analysis is presented of the North Korean presence in the world's scientific literature, and of the possibilities for collaboration which offers a mechanism for positive development for their citizens and also for their neighbours. Addresses: [Shelton, R. D.] ITRI Inc, Linthicum, MD 21090 USA. [Lewison, Grant] Kings Coll London, Guys Hosp, London SE1 6RT, England. [Lewison, Grant] Evaluametrics Ltd, Richmond TW9 4JF, Surrey, England. E-mail Addresses: shelton at wtec.org; grantlewison at aol.co.uk Funding Acknowledgement: NSF [ENG-0844639] Funding Text: Support from NSF cooperative agreement ENG-0844639 is gratefully acknowledged. The opinions of the authors are not necessarily those of their employers or sponsors. Cited Reference Count: 14 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: SPRINGER, VAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 0138-9130 Web of Science Categories: Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications; Information Science & Library Science Research Areas: Computer Science; Information Science & Library Science IDS Number: 216IL Unique ID: WOS:000324275600001 Cited References: UNESCO, 2010, UNESCO Science Report 2010: The current status of science around the world, Stone R, 2004, SCIENCE, V305, P1696 Bowers K., 2012, New Scientist, V2892, P38 Stone Richard, 2012, SCIENCE, V335, P1425 McCurry Justin, 2012, LANCET, V379, P602 2011, Proceedings of the 1st International Conference of the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, Pyongyang, Thorson S. J., 2012, Science & Diplomacy, V2, Shelton R. D., 2011, Proceedings of the 1st International Conference of the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, Pyongyang, P256 Robinson C, 2005, SCIENCE, V307, P206 Campbell C., 2012, Science & Diplomacy, V2, Taylor M. A., 2011, Congressional Research Service Report R41749, Stone Richard, 2004, Science (New York, N.Y.), V305, P1701 Choi S., 2011, IT Times, Stone Richard, 2011, SCIENCE, V334, P1624 ======================================================================= ======================================================================= Search terms matched: IMPACT FACTOR(1); S(1); TO(1) *View Full Record: http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=Alerting&SrcApp=Alerting&DestApp=WOS&DestLinkType=FullRecord;UT=WOS:000324975100007 *Order Full Text [ ] Title: Ireland'*s* contribution *to* orthopaedic literature: A bibliometric analysis Authors: Kennedy, C; Sullivan, PO; Bilal, M; Walsh, A Author Full Names: Kennedy, C.; Sullivan, P. O.; Bilal, M.; Walsh, A. Source: SURGEON-JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL COLLEGES OF SURGEONS OF EDINBURGH AND IRELAND, 11 (5):267-271; 10.1016/j.surge.2012.12.007 OCT 2013 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Bibliometric analysis, Publication productivity, Orthopaedics KeyWords Plus: JOURNALS; PUBLICATIONS; PRODUCTIVITY; CITATION; TRENDS Abstract: Background: Bibliometric analysis of scientific performance within a country or speciality, facilitate the recognition of factors that may further enhance research activity and performance. Our aim was to illicit the current state of Irelands orthopaedic research output in terms of quantity and quality. Methods: We performed a retrospective bibliometric analysis of all Irish orthopaedic publications over the past 5 years, in the top 20 peer-reviewed orthopaedic journals. Utilising the MEDLINE database, each journal was evaluated for articles that were published over the study period. Reviews, editorials, reports and letters were excluded. Each article abstract was analysed for research content, and country of origin. A nation's mean IF was defined by multiplying each journal's IF by the number of articles. Publications per million (PmP) was calculated by dividing the total number of publications by the population of each country. Results: We analysed a total of 25,595 article abstracts. Ireland contributed 109 articles in total (0.42% of all articles), however ranking according to population per million was 10th worldwide. Ireland ranked 18th worldwide in relation to mean *impact factor*, which was 2.91 over the study period. Ireland published in 16 of the top 20 journals, 9 of these were of European origin, and 1 of the top 5 was of American origin. In total, 61 Irish articles were assignable to clinical orthopaedic units. Clinical based studies (randomised controlled trials, observational, and epidemiology/bibliometric articles) and research based studies (In vivo, In vitro, and biomechanical) numbered 76 (69.7%) and 33 (30.2%) articles, respectively. Conclusion: This study provides a novel overview of current Irish orthopaedic related research, and, how our standards translate to the worldwide orthopaedic community. In order to maintain our publication productivity, academic research should continue to be encouraged at post graduate level. (C) 2013 Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (Scottish charity number SC005317) and Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Addresses: [Kennedy, C.; Sullivan, P. O.; Bilal, M.; Walsh, A.] Drogheda Co, Dept Trauma & Orthopaed, Our Lady Lourdes Hosp, Louth, Ireland. E-mail Addresses: Ciankennedy05 at gmail.com Cited Reference Count: 12 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: ROYAL COLLEGE SURGEONS EDINBURGH, NICOLSON ST, EDINBURGH EH8 9DW, SCOTLAND ISSN: 1479-666X Web of Science Categories: Surgery Research Areas: Surgery IDS Number: 225PP Unique ID: WOS:000324975100007 Cited References: Patsopoulos NA, 2005, JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, V293, P2362 Petrisor BA, 2006, INJURY-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE CARE OF THE INJURED, V37, P321 GeoHive, Global statisitics, Sayana M. K., 2009, IRISH JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE, V178, P389 Callaham M, 2002, JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION4th International Congress on Peer Review in Biomedical Publication, SEP 14-16, 2001, BARCELONA, SPAIN, V287, P2847 Agha Riaz, 2007, International journal of surgery (London, England), V5, P413 Fritzsche F. R., 2008, JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PATHOLOGY, V61, P474 Murphy C. G., 2011, IRISH JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE, V180, P691 Hauptman Jason S., 2011, JOURNAL OF NEUROSURGERY, V115, P1262 Jackson HH, 2004, JOURNAL OF SURGICAL RESEARCH36th Annual Meeting of the Association-for-Academic-Surgery, NOV 07-09, 2002, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, V116, P197 Bosker BH, 2006, JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY-BRITISH VOLUME, V88B, P156 Lee Kyoung Min, 2011, Clinics in orthopedic surgery, V3, P225 ======================================================================= Search terms matched: IMPACT FACTOR(3) *View Full Record: http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=Alerting&SrcApp=Alerting&DestApp=WOS&DestLinkType=FullRecord;UT=WOS:000325000700031 *Order Full Text [ ] Title: The 100 Most-cited Articles in the Imaging Literature Authors: Brinjikji, W; Klunder, A; Kallmes, DF Author Full Names: Brinjikji, Waleed; Klunder, Alexa; Kallmes, David F. Source: RADIOLOGY, 269 (1):272-276; 10.1148/radiol.13122242 OCT 2013 Language: English Document Type: Article KeyWords Plus: CITATION-CLASSICS; GOOGLE-SCHOLAR; JOURNALS; SCIENCE; RADIOLOGY; IMPACT; MEDICINE; SURGERY; SCOPUS; WEB Abstract: Purpose: To characterize the 100 most-cited articles in medical imaging. Materials and Methods: The Scopus database was searched for citations to articles published in any of the 116 journals in the subject category "radiology, nuclear medicine, and medical imaging" at the Institute of Science Information Web of Science that the authors termed "imaging literature." Using the Scopus database, two authors searched electronic and print versions of these journals to determine the 100 most-cited articles. The following data were collected for each article: journal name, journal *impact factor*, number of authors, publication year, country in which the study was performed, department of all authors, article type, imaging modality, grant funding, and clinical subspecialty. Statistical and/or mathematic, magnetic resonance (MR) imaging technique, image processing and/or analysis and computer science, new imaging technique, and basic science articles were considered "preclinical." Using the Pearson correlation coefficient, the authors examined the relationship between journal *impact factor* and the number of top 100 cited articles included in the list. Results: Most studies were classified as preclinical (n = 75). Fifty-eight of the 100 articles were neuroradiology articles. NeuroImage had the most highly cited articles (n = 22). MR imaging was the most commonly studied imaging modality (n = 69). The authors of 51 articles were from radiology departments. Most articles were published from 1990 to the present (n = 87). There was a statistically significant positive correlation between journal *impact factor* and the number of top 100 cited articles (r = 0.46, P < .001). Conclusion: Preclinical articles, primarily in the field of neurologic MR imaging, were highly represented in the top 100 cited articles in the medical imaging literature. (C) RSNA, 2013 Addresses: [Brinjikji, Waleed; Klunder, Alexa; Kallmes, David F.] Mayo Clin, Dept Radiol, Rochester, MN 55905 USA. E-mail Addresses: brinjikji.waleed at mayo.edu Funding Acknowledgement: eV3; Medtronic; Codman; MicroVention; Micrus; Sequent; Benvenue Medical Funding Text: W.B. No relevant conflicts of interest to disclose. A. K. No relevant conflicts of interest to disclose. D. F. K. Financial activities related to the present article: none to disclose. Financial activities not related to the present article: institution receives payment for consultancy from eV3, Medtronic, and Codman; institution has grants/grants pending from eV3, MicroVention, Codman, Micrus, Sequent, and Benvenue Medical; institution receives payment for lectures including service on speakers bureaus from MicroVention; institution receives payment for development of educational presentations from eV3; institution receives travel/accommodations/meeting expenses unrelated to activities listed from MicroVention. Other relationships: none to disclose. Cited Reference Count: 22 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: RADIOLOGICAL SOC NORTH AMERICA, 820 JORIE BLVD, OAK BROOK, IL 60523 USA ISSN: 0033-8419 Web of Science Categories: Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging Research Areas: Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging IDS Number: 225YH Unique ID: WOS:000325000700031 Cited References: Kulkarni Abhaya V., 2009, JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, V302, P1092 Tsai Yi-Lun, 2006, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE, V24, P647 Fell Dennis W., 2011, JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, V99, P202 Bakkalbasi Nisa, 2006, Biomedical digital libraries, V3, P7 Cheek J, 2006, QUALITATIVE HEALTH RESEARCH, V16, P423 CHEW FS, 1988, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ROENTGENOLOGY, V150, P227 Paladugu R, 2002, WORLD JOURNAL OF SURGERY, V26, P1099 HOUNDFIELD GN, 1973, BRITISH JOURNAL OF RADIOLOGY, V46, P1016 Lefaivre Kelly A., 2011, CLINICAL ORTHOPAEDICS AND RELATED RESEARCH, V469, P1487 Tripathi Ravi S., 2011, BMC ANESTHESIOLOGY, V11, Baltussen A, 2004, INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE, V30, P902 The World Factbook, Central Intelligence Agency Web site, BROOKES BC, 1969, NATURE, V224, P953 Callaham M, 2002, JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION4th International Congress on Peer Review in Biomedical Publication, SEP 14-16, 2001, BARCELONA, SPAIN, V287, P2847 Loonen Martijn P. J., 2008, PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY, V121, P320E Baltussen A, 2004, ANESTHESIA AND ANALGESIA, V98, P443 Falagas Matthew E., 2008, FASEB JOURNAL, V22, P338 Rad Arash Ehteshami, 2012, ACADEMIC RADIOLOGY, V19, P455 SIEGELMAN SS, 1988, RADIOLOGY, V168, P414 Behrens Heinrich, 2006, ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION B-STRUCTURAL SCIENCE, V62, P993 GARFIELD E, 1972, SCIENCE, V178, P471 Lim Kyoung Ja, 2012, RADIOLOGY, V264, P796 ======================================================================= Search terms matched: AN(1) *View Full Record: http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=Alerting&SrcApp=Alerting&DestApp=WOS&DestLinkType=FullRecord;UT=WOS:000325057500016 *Order Full Text [ ] Title: Impact angle of *an* academic journal Authors: Deng, KY; Huang, YH Author Full Names: Deng, Kuiying; Huang, Yanhong Source: CURRENT SCIENCE, 105 (6):755-756; SEP 25 2013 Language: English Document Type: Editorial Material KeyWords Plus: CITATION; INDEX Addresses: [Deng, Kuiying; Huang, Yanhong] Sci China Press, Beijing 100717, Peoples R China. E-mail Addresses: rossdeng at pku.edu.cn Cited Reference Count: 13 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: INDIAN ACAD SCIENCES, C V RAMAN AVENUE, SADASHIVANAGAR, P B #8005, BANGALORE 560 080, INDIA ISSN: 0011-3891 Web of Science Categories: Multidisciplinary Sciences Research Areas: Science & Technology - Other Topics IDS Number: 226SY Unique ID: WOS:000325057500016 Cited References: Hirsch JE, 2005, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V102, P16569 Clauset Aaron, 2009, SIAM REVIEW, V51, P661 GARFIELD E, 1972, SCIENCE, V178, P471 Simons Kai, 2008, SCIENCE, V322, P165 Wilhite Allen W., 2012, SCIENCE, V335, P542 Schreiber Michael, 2013, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V7, P379 Stumpf Michael P. H., 2012, SCIENCE, V335, P665 Ewing J., 2006, AMS Notices, V53, P1049 Alberts Bruce, 2013, SCIENCE, V340, P787 Garfield E, 2006, JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, V295, P90 Antonoyiannakis Manolis, 2009, PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, V102, Campbell P., 2008, Ethics Sci. Environ. Polit., V8, P5 [Anonymous], 2005, Nature, V435, P1003 ======================================================================= ======================================================================= *View Full Record: http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=Alerting&SrcApp=Alerting&DestApp=WOS&DestLinkType=FullRecord;UT=WOS:000324747800017 *Order Full Text [ ] Title: Journal bibliometrics indicators and citation ethics: A discussion of current issues Authors: Huggett, S Author Full Names: Huggett, Sarah Source: ATHEROSCLEROSIS, 230 (2):275-277; 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2013.07.051 OCT 2013 Language: English Document Type: Article KeyWords Plus: IMPACT FACTORS Abstract: Science has recently been accelerating at a fast rate, resulting in what has been called "information overload" and more recently "filter failure". In this perspective, journal performance indicators can play an important role in journal evaluation. Opinions on the appropriate use of journal-level bibliometrics indicators can be divided but they have now long been used as measures in research evaluation, and many editors see it as part of their editorial duty to try and improve bibliometrics indicators and rankings for their journal. There are various techniques through which this can be attempted, some more ethical than others. Some editors may try to boost the bibliometrics performance of their journals through gratuitous citations. This is problematic because citations are meant to provide useful references, scientifically justifiable, to previously published literature. As such citations can be used as widely accepted measures of scientific impact. Therefore, superfluous citations can distort the validity of bibliometrics indicators. It might be tempting to try to improve a journal's bibliometrics rankings at all costs, but these are only as meaningful as the data that feed into them. Exceedingly inflated indicators due to unethical behaviours can damage the reputation of a journal and its editors, and can lead to a loss of quality manuscript submissions, which in turn is likely to affect the journal's future citation impact. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved. Addresses: E-mail Addresses: s.huggett at elsevier.com Cited Reference Count: 12 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD, ELSEVIER HOUSE, BROOKVALE PLAZA, EAST PARK SHANNON, CO, CLARE, 00000, IRELAND ISSN: 0021-9150 Web of Science Categories: Peripheral Vascular Disease Research Areas: Cardiovascular System & Cardiology IDS Number: 222RC Unique ID: WOS:000324747800017 Cited References: Priem Jason, 2012, PLOS ONE, V7, Bollen Johan, 2009, PLOS ONE, V4, Diodato V., 1994, Dictionary of bibliometrics, Krell Frank-Thorsten, 2010, LEARNED PUBLISHING, V23, P59 Reedijk Jan, 2008, JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION, V64, P183 McVeigh ME, 2002, Journal self-citation in the journal citation reports-science edition, Davis P., 2012, Citation Cartel journals denied 2011 impact factorIn Scholarly kitchen blog, [Anonymous], 2007, Research Trends, Wilhite Allen W., 2012, SCIENCE, V335, P542 Amin M, 2000, Impact factors: use and abuse In Perspectives in publishing, McVeigh Marie E., 2009, JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, V302, P1107 Cronin Blaise, 2012, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V63, P1281 ======================================================================= *View Full Record: http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=Alerting&SrcApp=Alerting&DestApp=WOS&DestLinkType=FullRecord;UT=WOS:000325057500029 *Order Full Text [ ] Title: Statistical methodology for the scientometric study of the growth of medical sciences in India Authors: Mishra, AK; Balhara, YPS Author Full Names: Mishra, Ashwani Kumar; Balhara, Yatan Pal Singh Source: CURRENT SCIENCE, 105 (6):821-826; SEP 25 2013 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Growth trajectory, medical sciences, scientometrics, statistical methodology KeyWords Plus: LIFE; HEALTH Abstract: There is evidence that the growth of medical literature in India is phenomenal. However, the trajectory of this growth requires further study and the findings need to be disseminated. With this in mind the present study attempts to draw inferences on the trajectory of four broad domains of medical sciences in India over the span of 16 years, utilizing the available scientometrics information. The results are indicative of differential growth trajectory in many sub-disciplines of medical sciences. The specialities such as epidemiology, obstetrics and gynaecology, geriatrics and psychiatry and mental health, need to be pursued more seriously. Addresses: [Mishra, Ashwani Kumar; Balhara, Yatan Pal Singh] All India Inst Med Sci, Dept Psychiat, New Delhi 110029, India. [Mishra, Ashwani Kumar; Balhara, Yatan Pal Singh] NDDTC, All India Inst Med Sci, New Delhi 110029, India. E-mail Addresses: ashwaniiop at gmail.com Cited Reference Count: 18 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: INDIAN ACAD SCIENCES, C V RAMAN AVENUE, SADASHIVANAGAR, P B #8005, BANGALORE 560 080, INDIA ISSN: 0011-3891 Web of Science Categories: Multidisciplinary Sciences Research Areas: Science & Technology - Other Topics IDS Number: 226SY Unique ID: WOS:000325057500029 Cited References: Hardeman Sjoerd, 2013, SCIENTOMETRICS, V94, P1175 Lau Robin S., 2012, ASIA-PACIFIC JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, V24, P195 Satyanarayana K, 2010, Indian journal of physiology and pharmacology, V54, P197 Bjork B., 2010, PLOS ONE, V5, Saddichha Sahoo, 2011, Prehospital and disaster medicine, V26, P65 Mowafi Hany A, 2012, Saudi journal of anaesthesia, V6, P393 Garg K. C., 2010, Ann. Libr. Inf. Stud., V57, P196 Patra SK, 2005, SCIENTOMETRICS, V63, P583 Dhillon Preet K., 2012, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY, V41, P847 Dandona I., 2009, BMC Med., V7, P59 Agrawal Sunil, 2011, Indian journal of public health, V55, P25 Madhusudhan Chinthakandhi, 2009, DISEASES OF THE ESOPHAGUS, V22, P331 SCImago, 2007, SJR-SCImago Journal & Country Rank, Horlings Edwin, 2013, SCIENTOMETRICS, V94, P1137 Department of Science and Technology, Bibliometric study of India's scientific publication outputs during 2001-10, Gupta B M, 2011, Journal of natural science, biology, and medicine, V2, P87 Goli S., 2013, Health Econ. Policy Law, P1 Guin Gita, 2012, Journal of obstetrics and gynaecology of India, V62, P307 ======================================================================= *View Full Record: http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=Alerting&SrcApp=Alerting&DestApp=WOS&DestLinkType=FullRecord;UT=WOS:000323348000014 *Order Full Text [ ] Title: Worldwide research productivity in the field of rheumatology from 1996 to 2010: a bibliometric analysis Authors: Cheng, T; Zhang, GY Author Full Names: Cheng, Tao; Zhang, Guoyou Source: RHEUMATOLOGY, 52 (9):1630-1634; 10.1093/rheumatology/ket008 SEP 2013 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: rheumatology, research output, bibliometric KeyWords Plus: PUBLICATION OUTPUT; H-INDEX; PREVALENCE; COUNTRIES Abstract: Methods. Articles published in 39 rheumatology journals from 1996 to 2010 were screened using the Scopus database. The number of articles, citations, Hirsch indices (h-indices) and international collaborations were determined for countries or regions. Publication activity was adjusted for the top 35 countries categorized by population size and gross domestic product (GDP). Results. A total of 43 808 articles were identified. The time trend of the number of articles showed an increase of 2.95-fold between 1996 and 2010. Western Europe and northern America were the most productive world areas, producing 52.4% and 23.1% of the available literature, respectively. The USA published the most articles, followed by the UK and Germany. The USA, the UK and the Netherlands had the highest h-indices (169, 137 and 117, respectively) and ranked about the same when total citations were used. However, Ireland had the highest average citations per article (48.33), followed by Denmark (40.19) and the Netherlands (39.86). Positive associations between the total number of publications/citations and population/GDP were observed (P < 0.01). Scandinavian countries ranked the highest after adjusting for population and GDP. Conclusion. The USA and Western Europe clearly dominate the production of scientific publications in rheumatology. However, some smaller European countries have high scientific output relative to their size. Addresses: [Cheng, Tao] Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ, Dept Orthopaed Surg, Shanghai Peoples Hosp 6, Sch Med, Shanghai 200030, Peoples R China. [Zhang, Guoyou] Wenzhou Med Coll, Dept Hand & Plast Surg, Affiliated Hosp 2, Wenzhou, Peoples R China. E-mail Addresses: dr_tao.cheng at hotmail.com Funding Acknowledgement: Shanghai Jiao Tong University [YG2011MS30]; Shanghai Municipal Health Bureau Science Fund for Young Scholars [2010QJ036A] Funding Text: This work was supported by the Interdisciplinary (Engineering-Medical) Research Fund of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (YG2011MS30) and the Shanghai Municipal Health Bureau Science Fund for Young Scholars (2010QJ036A). Cited Reference Count: 16 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PRESS, GREAT CLARENDON ST, OXFORD OX2 6DP, ENGLAND ISSN: 1462-0324 Web of Science Categories: Rheumatology Research Areas: Rheumatology IDS Number: 204EN Unique ID: WOS:000323348000014 Cited References: Falagas ME, 2006, BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES, V6, Glanzel W, 2006, Sci Focus, V1, P10 Shelton Robert D., 2008, SCIENTOMETRICS, V74, P191 Man JP, 2004, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY, V19, P811 Gabriel Sherine E., 2009, ARTHRITIS RESEARCH & THERAPY, V11, Bar-Ilan Judit, 2008, SCIENTOMETRICS, V74, P257 Pagel P. S., 2011, BRITISH JOURNAL OF ANAESTHESIA, V107, P357 Panaretos John, 2009, SCIENTOMETRICS, V81, P635 Basu Aparna, 2010, SCIENTOMETRICS10th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators, SEP 17-20, 2008, Vienna, AUSTRIA, V82, P507 Naredo Esperanza, 2011, RHEUMATOLOGY, V50, P1838 World Bank Group, 2010, World development indicators, Ramos J. M., 2008, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE, V12, P1461 Rahman M, 2003, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT IN HEALTH CARE, V19, P249 Vioque J., 2010, OBESITY REVIEWS, V11, P603 Healy N. A., 2011, BREAST CANCER RESEARCH AND TREATMENT, V127, P845 Cheng T, 2010, J Rheumatol, V37, P2390 ======================================================================= *View Full Record: http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=Alerting&SrcApp=Alerting&DestApp=WOS&DestLinkType=FullRecord;UT=WOS:000324859300005 *Order Full Text [ ] Title: Are Chinese nanoscience citation curves converging towards their American counterparts? Authors: Hu, XJ; Rousseau, R Author Full Names: Hu, Xiaojun; Rousseau, Ronald Source: MALAYSIAN JOURNAL OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE, 18 (3):49-56; 2013 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Nanoscience and nanotechnology, Citation curves, Convergence, China, USA KeyWords Plus: NANOTECHNOLOGY; PUBLICATIONS; DELINEATION; JOURNALS; SCIENCE; PATENTS; UPDATE; TERMS; FIELD Abstract: We investigate if the shape of citation curves of Chinese publications in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology converge to those of America and find that they, indeed, do. The used approach is size independent and, hence, can be used to compare not only large countries but also countries of intermediate size. Addresses: [Hu, Xiaojun] Zhejiang Univ, Sch Med, Med Informat Ctr, Hangzhou 310058, Zhejiang, Peoples R China. [Rousseau, Ronald] VIVES Assoc KU Leuven, Fac Engn Technol, B-8400 Oostende, Belgium. [Rousseau, Ronald] Univ Antwerp, IBW, B-2000 Antwerp, Belgium. [Rousseau, Ronald] Katholieke Univ Leuven, B-3000 Louvain, Belgium. E-mail Addresses: xjhu at zju.edu.cn; ronald.rousseau at ua.ac.be Cited Reference Count: 24 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: UNIV MALAYA, FAC COMPUTER SCIENCE & INFORMATION TECH, UNIV MALAYA, FAC COMPUTER SCIENCE & INFORMATION TECH, KUALA LUMPUR, 50603, MALAYSIA ISSN: 1394-6234 Web of Science Categories: Information Science & Library Science Research Areas: Information Science & Library Science IDS Number: 224CN Unique ID: WOS:000324859300005 Cited References: Kostoff Ronald N., 2012, TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE, V79, P986 Kostoff Ronald N., 2007, SCIENTOMETRICS, V70, P565 Rafols Ismael, 2010, SCIENTOMETRICS, V82, P263 Leydesdorff Loet, 2008, SCIENTOMETRICS, V76, P159 Rafols Ismael, 2007, SCIENTOMETRICS, V70, P633 Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China, 2001, National Program for Nano Scientific and Technological Development (2001-2010), Hewett E. W., 2006, Proceedings of the IVth International Conference on Managing Quality in Chains, Vols 1 and 24th International Conference on Managing Quality in Chains, AUG 07-10, 2006, Bangkok, THAILAND, P39 Egghe L., 1990, Guan J.C., 2013, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Lin Min-Wei, 2007, SCIENTOMETRICS, V70, P555 Porter Alan L., 2009, NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY, V4, P534 Leydesdorff Loet, 2007, SCIENTOMETRICS, V70, P693 Liu L., 2007, Science, Technology and Society, V12, P201 Guan Jiancheng, 2012, SCIENTOMETRICS, V93, P609 Bai CL, 2005, SCIENCE, V309, P61 Kostoff Ronald N., 2008, CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN, V53, P1272 Bhattacharya S., 2011, DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology, V31, Leydesdorff Loet, 2007, Proceedings of ISSI 2007: 11th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics, Vols I and II11th International Conference of the International-Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics, JUN 25-27, 2007, Madrid, SPAIN, P499 Shapira Philip, 2010, NATURE, V468, P627 Wang Gangbo, 2012, JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH, V14, Glanzel W., 2003, Report: Steunpunt O & O Statistieken, Zhang Xueqing, 2009, SENSORS, V9, P1033 Pei R.M., 2010, Geomatics and Information Science of Wuhan University, V35, P207 Zhao Qingjun, 2011, SCIENTOMETRICS, V87, P159 ======================================================================= ======================================================================= *View Full Record: http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=Alerting&SrcApp=Alerting&DestApp=WOS&DestLinkType=FullRecord;UT=WOS:000324545600001 *Order Full Text [ ] Title: Differences between h-index measures from different bibliographic sources and search engines Authors: Barreto, ML; Aragao, E; de Sousa, LEPF; Santana, TM; Barata, RB Author Full Names: Barreto, Mauricio Lima; Aragao, Erika; Fernandes de Sousa, Luis Eugenio Portela; Santana, Taris Maria; Barata, Rita Barradas Source: REVISTA DE SAUDE PUBLICA, 47 (2):231-238; 10.1590/S0034-8910.2013047004533 APR 2013 Language: Portuguese Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Public Health, Scientific Publication Indicators, Bibliometric Indicators, Databases, Bibliographic, Bibliometrics KeyWords Plus: GOOGLE SCHOLAR; ALTERNATIVES; SCIENTISTS; SCIENCES; ACADEMY Abstract: OBJECTIVE: Analyze the use of the h-index as a measure of the bibliometric impact of Brazilian researchers' scientific publications. METHODS: The scientific production of Brazilian CNPq 1-A researchers in the areas of public health, immunology and medicine were compared. The mean h-index of the groups of researchers in each area were estimated and nonparametric Kruskal Wallis test and multiple comparisons Behrens-Fisher test were used to compare the differences. RESULTS: The h-index means were higher in the area of Immunology than in Public Health and Medicine when the Web of Science base was used. However, this difference disappears when the comparison is made using Scopus or Google Scholar. CONCLUSIONS: The emergence of Google Scholar brings a new level to discussions on the measure of the bibliometric impact of scientific publications. Areas with strong professional components, in which knowledge is produced and must also be published in the native language, vis-a-vis its dissemination to the international community, necessarily have a standard of scientific publications and citations different from areas exclusively or predominantly academic and they are best captured by Google Scholar. Addresses: [Barreto, Mauricio Lima; Fernandes de Sousa, Luis Eugenio Portela] Univ Fed Bahia, Inst Saude Colet, Salvador, BA, Brazil. [Barreto, Mauricio Lima; Aragao, Erika; Fernandes de Sousa, Luis Eugenio Portela; Santana, Taris Maria] Inst Nacl Ciencia & Tecnologia, Salvador, BA, Brazil. [Aragao, Erika] Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz, Ctr Pesquisa Goncalo Muniz, Salvador, BA, Brazil. [Barata, Rita Barradas] Fac Ciencias Med Santa Casa Sao Paulo, Dept Med Social, Sao Paulo, Brazil. E-mail Addresses: mauricio at ufba.br Cited Reference Count: 16 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: REVISTA DE SAUDE PUBLICA, FACULDADE SAUDE PUBL DA USP, AV DR ARNALDO 715, 01246-904SP SAO PAULO, BRAZIL ISSN: 0034-8910 Web of Science Categories: Public, Environmental & Occupational Health Research Areas: Public, Environmental & Occupational Health IDS Number: 219XS Unique ID: WOS:000324545600001 Cited References: Hirsch JE, 2005, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V102, P16569 Lacasse Jeffrey R., 2011, RESEARCH ON SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE, V21, P599 Hirch JE., 2007, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA., V104, P19193 Kellner Alexander W. A., 2008, ANAIS DA ACADEMIA BRASILEIRA DE CIENCIAS, V80, P771 Burrows Roger, 2012, SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW, V60, P355 Jacso P., 2009, Online Inf Rev., V34, P175 Ouimet Mathieu, 2011, SCIENTOMETRICS, V88, P91 Dalgaard Peter, 2008, INTRODUCTORY STATISTICS WITH R, SECOND EDITION, P1 LINDSEY D, 1989, SCIENTOMETRICS, V15, P189 Cronin Blaise, 2006, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V57, P1275 Bornmann Lutz, 2007, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V58, P1381 Harzing Anne-Wil, 2009, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V60, P41 Bar-Ilan Judit, 2008, SCIENTOMETRICS, V74, P257 Norris Michael, 2007, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V1, P161 Rodrigues Pereira Julio Cesar, 2011, REVISTA DE SAUDE PUBLICA, V45, P599 Harzing AWK, 2008, Ethics Sci Environ Polit., P61 ======================================================================= ======================================================================= *View Full Record: http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=Alerting&SrcApp=Alerting&DestApp=WOS&DestLinkType=FullRecord;UT=WOS:000323859700011 *Order Full Text [ ] Title: A stochastic approach to the relation between the impact factor and the uncitedness factor Authors: Burrell, QL Author Full Names: Burrell, Quentin L. Source: JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, 7 (3):676-682; 10.1016/j.joi.2013.03.001 2013 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Impact factor, Uncitedness factor, Gamma-Poisson process, Success-breeds-success, van Leeuwen-Moed lower bound KeyWords Plus: LIBRARY CIRCULATION MODEL; CITATION DISTRIBUTION; H-INDEX Abstract: Empirical analysis of the relationship between the impact factor - as measured by the average number of citations - and the proportion of uncited material in a collection dates back at least to van Leeuwen and Moed (2005) where graphical presentations revealed striking patterns. Recently Hsu and Huang (2012) have proposed a simple functional relationship. Here it is shown that the general features of these observed regularities are predicted by a well-established informetric model which enables us to derive a theoretical van Leeuwen Moed lower bound. We also question some of the arguments of Hsu and Huang (2012) and Egghe (2013) while various issues raised by Egghe (2008, 2013) are also addressed. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Addresses: [Burrell, Quentin L.] Katholieke Univ Leuven, Ctr R&D Monitoring ECOOM, Louvain, Belgium. E-mail Addresses: quentinburrell at manx.net Cited Reference Count: 21 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 1751-1577 Web of Science Categories: Information Science & Library Science Research Areas: Information Science & Library Science IDS Number: 210UH Unique ID: WOS:000323859700011 Cited References: Price D. de S., 1976, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, V27, P293 BURRELL QL, 1982, JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY SERIES A-STATISTICS IN SOCIETY, V145, P439 Yule G. U., 1920, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (A), V83, P255 BURRELL QL, 1985, JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION, V41, P100 Burrell Quentin L., 2007, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V1, P170 van Leeuwen TN, 2005, SCIENTOMETRICS, V63, P357 Morse P. M., 1976, Collection Management, V1, P47 Burrell QL, 2001, SCIENTOMETRICS, V52, P3 Burrell QL, 2002, SCIENTOMETRICS, V53, P309 Egghe L., 2010, SCIENTOMETRICS, V83, P689 Egghe Leo, 2008, SCIENTOMETRICS, V76, P117 Burrell Quentin L., 2012, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V63, P1466 Burrell Quentin L., 2007, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V1, P16 Hsu Jiann-wien, 2012, PHYSICA A-STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS, V391, P2129 GLANZEL W, 1995, INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT3rd International Conference on Informetrics, AUG 09-12, 1991, BANGALORE, INDIA, V31, P69 Burrell QL, 2005, SCIENTOMETRICS, V65, P381 Burrell Q. L., 2007, Scientometrics, V79, P79 Egghe L., 2013, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V7, P183 BURRELL QL, 1986, JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION, V42, P114 Burrell Q. L., 1988, Informetrics 87/88: Select Proceedings of the First International Conference on Bibliometrics and Theoretical Aspects of Information Retrieval, P43 BURRELL Q, 1980, JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION, V36, P115 ======================================================================= *View Full Record: http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=Alerting&SrcApp=Alerting&DestApp=WOS&DestLinkType=FullRecord;UT=WOS:000323859700003 *Order Full Text [ ] Title: Impact maturity times and citation time windows: The 2-year maximum journal impact factor Authors: Dorta-Gonzalez, P; Dorta-Gonzalez, MI Author Full Names: Dorta-Gonzalez, P.; Dorta-Gonzalez, M. I. Source: JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, 7 (3):593-602; 10.1016/j.joi.2013.03.005 2013 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Journal metrics, Bibliometric indicator, Citation analysis, Journal impact factor, Citation time window, Impact maturity time KeyWords Plus: H-INDEX; INDICATORS; SCIENCE; FIELDS; TERMS; TOOL Abstract: Journal metrics are employed for the assessment of scientific scholar journals from a general bibliometric perspective. In this context, the Thomson Reuters journal impact factors (JIFs) are the citation-based indicators most used. The 2-year journal impact factor (2-JIF) counts citations to one and two year old articles, while the 5-year journal impact factor (5-JIF) counts citations from one to five year old articles. Nevertheless, these indicators are not comparable among fields of science for two reasons: (i) each field has a different impact maturity time, and (ii) because of systematic differences in publication and citation behavior across disciplines. In fact, the 5-JIF firstly appeared in the journal Citation Reports OCR) in 2007 with the purpose of making more comparable impacts in fields in which impact matures slowly. However, there is not an optimal fixed impact maturity time valid for all the fields. In some of them two years provides a good performance whereas in others three or more years are necessary. Therefore, there is a problem when comparing a journal from a field in which impact matures slowly with a journal from a field in which impact matures rapidly. In this work, we propose the 2-year maximum journal impact factor (2M-JIF), a new impact indicator that considers the 2-year rolling citation time window of maximum impact instead of the previous 2-year time window. Finally, an empirical application comparing 2-JIF, 5-JIF, and 2M-JIF shows that the maximum rolling target window reduces the between-group variance with respect to the within-group variance in a random sample of about six hundred journals from eight different fields. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Addresses: [Dorta-Gonzalez, P.] Univ Palmas Gran Canaria, Dept Metodos Cuantitat Econ & Gest, Gran Canaria, Spain. [Dorta-Gonzalez, M. I.] Univ La Laguna, Dept Estadist Invest Operat & Comput, Tenerife, Spain. E-mail Addresses: pdorta at dmc.ulpgc.es Cited Reference Count: 26 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 1751-1577 Web of Science Categories: Information Science & Library Science Research Areas: Information Science & Library Science IDS Number: 210UH Unique ID: WOS:000323859700003 Cited References: Rousseau R., 2009, Chinese Journal of Library and Information Science, V2, P1 Zitt Michel, 2008, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V59, P1856 Moed Henk F., 2010, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V4, P265 Pudovkin AI, 2002, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V53, P1113 Leydesdorff L, 2006, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V57, P601 Leydesdorff Loet, 2011, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V5, P87 Leydesdorff Loet, 2011, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V62, P217 GARFIELD E, 1972, SCIENCE, V178, P471 Egghe L, 2002, CANADIAN JOURNAL OF INFORMATION AND LIBRARY SCIENCE-REVUE CANADIENNE DES SCIENCES DE L INFORMATION ET DE BIBLIOTHECONOMIE, V27, P29 Wagner Caroline S., 2011, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V5, P14 GARFIELD E, 1979, SCIENTOMETRICS, V1, P359 Bergstrom C., 2007, College and Research Libraries News, V68, P314 van Raan Anthony F. J., 2010, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V4, P431 Moed Henk F., 2012, SCIENTOMETRICS, V92, P367 Rafols Ismael, 2009, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V60, P1823 Bornmann Luti, 2008, JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION, V64, P45 Dorta-Gonzalez Pablo, 2010, REVISTA ESPANOLA DE DOCUMENTACION CIENTIFICA, V33, P225 Waltman L., Scientometrics, Althouse Benjamin M., 2009, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V60, P27 Frandsen TF, 2005, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V56, P58 Dorta-Gonzalez Pablo, 2011, SCIENTOMETRICS, V88, P729 Rosvall Martin, 2008, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V105, P1118 Leydesdorff Loet, 2012, SCIENTOMETRICS, V92, P355 Leydesdorff Loet, 2009, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V60, P1327 Bensman Stephen J., 2007, ANNUAL REVIEW OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V41, P93 Gonzalez-Pereira B., 2009, Journal of Informetrics, V4, P379 ======================================================================= * *View Full Record: http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=Alerting&SrcApp=Alerting&DestApp=WOS&DestLinkType=FullRecord;UT=WOS:000323859700002 *Order Full Text [ ] Title: The distribution of references across texts: Some implications for citation analysis Authors: Ding, Y; Liu, XZ; Guo, C; Cronin, B Author Full Names: Ding, Ying; Liu, Xiaozhong; Guo, Chun; Cronin, Blaise Source: JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, 7 (3):583-592; 10.1016/j.joi.2013.03.003 2013 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Content-based citation analysis, Citation, Mentioning, Citation analysis KeyWords Plus: SCIENCE; CLASSIFICATION; INFORMATION; INDEXES Abstract: In citation network analysis, complex behavior is reduced to a simple edge, namely, node A cites node B. The implicit assumption is that A is giving credit to, or acknowledging, B. It is also the case that the contributions of all citations are treated equally, even though some citations appear multiply in a text and others appear only once. In this study, we apply text-mining algorithms to a relatively large dataset (866 information science articles containing 32,496 bibliographic references) to demonstrate the differential contributions made by references. We (1) look at the placement of citations across the different sections of a journal article, and (2) identify highly cited works using two different counting methods (CountOne and CountX). We find that (1) the most highly cited works appear in the Introduction and Literature Review sections of citing papers, and (2) the citation rankings produced by CountOne and CountX differ. That is to say, counting the number of times a bibliographic reference is cited in a paper rather than treating all references the same no matter how many times they are invoked in the citing article reveals the differential contributions made by the cited works to the citing paper. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Addresses: [Ding, Ying; Liu, Xiaozhong; Guo, Chun; Cronin, Blaise] Indiana Univ, Sch Lib & Informat Sci, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA. E-mail Addresses: Dingying at indiana.edu; liu237 at indiana.edu; chunguo at indiana.edu; bcronin at indiana.edu Cited Reference Count: 35 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 1751-1577 Web of Science Categories: Information Science & Library Science Research Areas: Information Science & Library Science IDS Number: 210UH Unique ID: WOS:000323859700002 Cited References: White H. D., 1990, Scholarly communication and bibliometrics, P84 CHUBIN DE, 1975, SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE, V5, P423 OPPENHEIM C, 1978, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE, V29, P225 SPIEGELROSING I, 1977, SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE, V7, P97 HERLACH G, 1978, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE, V29, P308 Small H., 1982, P287 CRONIN B, 1981, JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE, V3, P27 GARFIELD E, 1972, SCIENCE, V178, P471 Finney B., 1979, The reference characteristics of scientific texts, MORAVCSIK MJ, 1975, SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE, V5, P86 SMALL HG, 1976, INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION, V3, P67 Blei DM, 2003, JOURNAL OF MACHINE LEARNING RESEARCH18th International Conference on Machine Learning, JUN 28-JUL 01, 2001, WILLIAMSTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS, V3, P993 PERITZ BC, 1983, SCIENTOMETRICS, V5, P303 Small Henry, 2011, SCIENTOMETRICS, V87, P373 MCCAIN KW, 1989, SCIENTOMETRICS, V17, P127 SMALL HG, 1978, SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE, V8, P327 Ding Ying, 2011, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V62, P236 LIPETZ BA, 1965, AMERICAN DOCUMENTATION, V16, P81 Teufel S., 2006, Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural language Processing (EMNLP06), July 22-23, 2006, Sydney, Australia, Garfield E., 1977, Essays of an Information Scientist, V2, P62 Glenisson P, 2005, INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT, V41, P1548 SMALL H, 1987, SCIENTOMETRICS, V12, P339 Pinski G., 1976, Information Processing & Management, Cronin B., 1984, The citation process: The role and significance of citations in scientific communication, FROST CO, 1979, LIBRARY QUARTERLY, V49, P399 MacRoberts M. H., 2010, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V61, P1 Small H., 2011, Mapping and Measuring Scientific Output, May 11, Cronin B, 2004, SCIENTOMETRICS, V60, P41 VINKLER P, 1987, SCIENTOMETRICS, V12, P47 Hirsch JE, 2005, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V102, P16569 Bollen Johan, 2006, SCIENTOMETRICS, V69, P669 Bergstrom C., 2007, College and Research Libraries News, V68, P314 BONZI S, 1982, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE, V33, P208 Voos H., 1976, Journal of Academic Librarianship, V1, P20 Suppe F, 1998, PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE, V65, P381 ======================================================================= *View Full Record: http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=Alerting&SrcApp=Alerting&DestApp=WOS&DestLinkType=FullRecord;UT=WOS:000323859700020 *Order Full Text [ ] Title: Quantitative evaluation of alternative field normalization procedures Authors: Li, YR; Radicchi, F; Castellano, C; Ruiz-Castillo, J Author Full Names: Li, Yunrong; Radicchi, Filippo; Castellano, Claudio; Ruiz-Castillo, Javier Source: JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, 7 (3):746-755; 10.1016/j.joi.2013.06.001 2013 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Citation analysis, Citation practices, Normalization procedures, Citation inequality KeyWords Plus: JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; RESEARCH PERFORMANCE; SCIENTOMETRIC INDICATORS; CITATION DISTRIBUTIONS; PUBLICATIONS; COUNTS; SCORES; SCALES; OUTPUT; INDEX Abstract: Wide differences in publication and citation practices make impossible the direct comparison of raw citation counts across scientific disciplines. Recent research has studied new and traditional normalization procedures aimed at suppressing as much as possible these disproportions in citation numbers among scientific domains. Using the recently introduced IDCP (Inequality due to Differences in Citation Practices) method, this paper rigorously tests the performance of six cited-side normalization procedures based on the Thomson Reuters classification system consisting of 172 sub-fields. We use six yearly datasets from 1980 to 2004, with widely varying citation windows from the publication year to May 2011. The main findings are the following three. Firstly, as observed in previous research, within each year the shapes of sub-field citation distributions are strikingly similar. This paves the way for several normalization procedures to perform reasonably well in reducing the effect on citation inequality of differences in citation practices. Secondly, independently of the year of publication and the length of the citation window, the effect of such differences represents about 13% of total citation inequality. Thirdly, a recently introduced two-parameter normalization scheme outperforms the other normalization procedures over the entire period, reducing citation disproportions to a level very close to the minimum achievable given the data and the classification system. However, the traditional procedure of using sub-field mean citations as normalization factors yields also good results. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Addresses: [Li, Yunrong; Ruiz-Castillo, Javier] Univ Carlos III Madrid, Dept Econ, E-28903 Getafe, Spain. [Radicchi, Filippo] Univ Rovira & Virgili, Dept Engn Quim, Tarragona, Spain. [Castellano, Claudio] Sapienza Univ Roma, Ist Sistemi Complessi ISC CNR, Rome, Italy. [Castellano, Claudio] Sapienza Univ Roma, Dipartimento Fis, Rome, Italy. E-mail Addresses: jrc at eco.uc3m.es Cited Reference Count: 43 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 1751-1577 Web of Science Categories: Information Science & Library Science Research Areas: Information Science & Library Science IDS Number: 210UH Unique ID: WOS:000323859700020 Cited References: MacRoberts MH, 1996, SCIENTOMETRICS, V36, P435 Leydesdorff L., 2012, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Albarran Pedro, 2011, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V5, P48 Radicchi Filippo, 2012, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V6, P121 MOED HF, 1985, RESEARCH POLICY, V14, P131 Moed Henk F., 2010, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V4, P265 Leydesdorff L., 2012, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, V62, P217 Moed H. F., 1988, P177 VINKLER P, 1986, SCIENTOMETRICS, V10, P157 Hirsch JE, 2005, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V102, P16569 Schubert A., 1988, P137 Van Eck N. J., 2012, PloS ONE, SCHUBERT A, 1986, SCIENTOMETRICS, V9, P281 Leydesdorff Loet, 2010, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V4, P644 Schubert A., 1983, Proceedings of the first national conference with international participation in scientometrics and linguistics of scientific text, Varna, Crespo J. A., 2013, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Glaenzel Wolfgang, 2011, SCIENTOMETRICS, V87, P415 MOED HF, 1995, SCIENTOMETRICS, V33, P381 Crespo Juan A., 2013, PLOS ONE, V8, Waltman L., 2012, Scientometrics, MACROBERTS MH, 1989, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE, V40, P342 Waltman L., 2011, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, V63, P72 Schubert A, 1996, SCIENTOMETRICS, V36, P311 Braun T., 1985, Scientometrics indicators. A 32 country comparison of publication productivity and citation impact, Pudovkin AI, 2002, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V53, P1113 Vinkler P, 2003, SCIENTOMETRICS, V58, P687 Glaenzel Wolfgang, 2011, JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE, V37, P40 Abramo Giovanni, 2012, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V6, P645 SCHUBERT A, 1987, SCIENTOMETRICS, V12, P267 Kinney A. L., 2007, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V104, P17943 Albarran Pedro, 2011, SCIENTOMETRICS, V88, P385 Waltman L., 2013, A systematic empirical comparison of different approaches for normalizing citation impact indicators, Albarran Pedro, 2011, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V5, P122 DAVIS P, 1984, AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW, V74, P225 Garfield E, 2006, JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, V295, P90 Egghe Leo, 2006, SCIENTOMETRICS, V69, P131 Li Y., 2013, Working Paper 13-05, Adler Robert, 2009, STATISTICAL SCIENCE, V24, P1 Radicchi Filippo, 2012, PLOS ONE, V7, Zitt Michel, 2008, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V59, P1856 Bornmann Lutz, 2013, EMBO REPORTS, V14, P226 Bornmann Luti, 2008, JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION, V64, P45 Radicchi Filippo, 2008, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V105, P17268 ======================================================================= Search terms matched: SCIENTOMETRIC(1) *View Full Record: http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=Alerting&SrcApp=Alerting&DestApp=WOS&DestLinkType=FullRecord;UT=WOS:000323865800769 *Order Full Text [ ] Title: Chlorpyrifos neurotoxicity-A *scientometric* analysis Authors: Schulze, M; Schrumpf, L; Schulze, J Author Full Names: Schulze, Michaela; Schrumpf, Laura; Schulze, Johannes Source: TOXICOLOGY LETTERS, 221 S250-S250; S 10.1016/j.toxlet.2013.05.622 AUG 28 2013 Language: English Document Type: Meeting Abstract Conference Title: 49th Congress of the European-Societies-of-Toxicology (EUROTOX) Conference Date: SEP 01-04, 2013 Conference Location: Interlaken, SWITZERLAND Conference Sponsors: European Soc Toxicol (EUROTOX), ECETOC, Roche, Syngenta, AstraZeneca, Sanofi, Basilea Pharmaceutica, ACEA Biosciences Inc, European Crop Protect, Bioservice Sci Labs GmbH, Oekotoxzentrum Ctr Ecotox, Swiss Confederat, Fed Dept Home Affairs, Fed Off Publ Hlth (FOPH), BASF, SCAHT, Johnson & Johnson, Janssen Pharmaceut Co, Natl Ctr Replacement, Refinement & Reduct Anim Res, ILSI, SERVIER, RCC, Nestle, Suva Pro, Interpharma, Covance, Novartis, Merck, BioReliance Addresses: [Schulze, Michaela; Schrumpf, Laura; Schulze, Johannes] Goethe Univ Frankfurt, Fac Med, Inst Ind Social & Environm Med, D-60590 Frankfurt, Germany. Cited Reference Count: 0 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD, ELSEVIER HOUSE, BROOKVALE PLAZA, EAST PARK SHANNON, CO, CLARE, 00000, IRELAND ISSN: 0378-4274 Web of Science Categories: Toxicology Research Areas: Toxicology IDS Number: 210WO Unique ID: WOS:000323865800769 ======================================================================= *Record 33 of 40. *View Full Record: http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=Alerting&SrcApp=Alerting&DestApp=WOS&DestLinkType=FullRecord;UT=WOS:000323859700015 *Order Full Text [ ] Title: Comparative rank assessment of journal articles Authors: Vinkler, P Author Full Names: Vinkler, Peter Source: JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, 7 (3):712-717; 10.1016/j.joi.2013.04.006 2013 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Elite set, Evaluation, Percentage Rank Position, Rank by citation rate, Normalization by field, Normalization by size KeyWords Plus: SCIENTIFIC IMPACT; CITATION IMPACT; INDEX; INDICATOR; NORMALIZATION; PUBLICATIONS; PERFORMANCE Abstract: To take into account the impact of the different bibliometric features of scientific fields and different size of both the publication set evaluated and the set used as reference standard, two new impact indicators are introduced. The Percentage Rank Position (PRP) indicator relates the ordinal rank position of the article assessed to the total number of papers in the publishing journal. The publications in the publishing journal are ranked by the decreasing citation frequency. The Relative Elite Rate (RER) indicator relates the number of citations obtained by the article assessed to the mean citation rate of the papers in the elite set of the publishing journal. The indices can be preferably calculated from the data of the publications in the elite set of journal papers of individuals, teams, institutes or countries. The number of papers in the elite set is calculated by the equation: P(pi(nu))=(10 log P) - 10, where P is the total number of papers. The mean of the PRP and RER indicators of the journal papers assessed may be applied for comparing the eminence of publication sets across fields. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Addresses: Hungarian Acad Sci, Res Ctr Nat Sci, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary. E-mail Addresses: pvinkler at chemres.hu Cited Reference Count: 27 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 1751-1577 Web of Science Categories: Information Science & Library Science Research Areas: Information Science & Library Science IDS Number: 210UH Unique ID: WOS:000323859700015 Cited References: Castellano Claudio, 2009, ARCHIVUM IMMUNOLOGIAE ET THERAPIAE EXPERIMENTALIS, V57, P85 Viera E. S., 2010, Journal of Informetrics, V4, P1 Glaenzel Wolfgang, 2011, JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE, V37, P40 Glaenzel Wolfgang, 2011, SCIENTOMETRICS, V88, P297 Vinkler Peter, 2012, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V6, P254 Vinkler Peter, 2010, SCIENTOMETRICS10th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators, SEP 17-20, 2008, Vienna, AUSTRIA, V82, P461 Wagner Caroline S., 2012, RESEARCH EVALUATION, V21, P183 Cole S., 1973, Social stratification in science, de Solla Price D. J., 1963, Little science, big science, Jin B., 2006, Science Focus,, V1, P8 Vinkler P, 2010, EVALUATION OF RESEARCH BY SCIENTOMETRIC INDICATORS, P1 Colliander Cristian, 2011, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V5, P101 Bornmann Lutz, 2011, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V5, P228 Hirsch JE, 2005, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V102, P16569 Lundberg Jonas, 2007, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V1, P145 Wohlin Claes, 2009, SCIENTOMETRICS, V81, P521 Radicchi Filippo, 2008, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V105, P17268 Egghe Leo, 2006, SCIENTOMETRICS, V69, P131 Vinkler Peter, 2009, JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE, V35, P602 Bornmann Lutz, 2013, EMBO REPORTS, V14, P226 Jin BiHui, 2007, CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN, V52, P855 Vinkler Peter, 2011, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V62, P1963 Vinkler Peter, 2009, SCIENTOMETRICS, V79, P409 TAGUE J, 1990, JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE, V16, P29 Garfield E., 1979, Citation indexing: Its theory and application in science, technology, and humanities, Pudovkin A. I., 2012, SCIENTOMETRICS, V92, P409 Kosmulski Marek, 2011, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V5, P481 ======================================================================= *Record 37 of 40. Search terms matched: CITATIONS(1) *View Full Record: http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=Alerting&SrcApp=Alerting&DestApp=WOS&DestLinkType=FullRecord;UT=WOS:000323859700007 *Order Full Text [ ] Title: Counting publications and *citations*: Is more always better? Authors: Waltman, L; van Eck, NJ; Wouters, P Author Full Names: Waltman, Ludo; van Eck, Nees Jan; Wouters, Paul Source: JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, 7 (3):635-641; 10.1016/j.joi.2013.04.001 2013 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Bibliometric index, Citation, Highly cited publication, Modeling, Scientific impact KeyWords Plus: HIGHLY CITED PAPERS; INDICATORS; INDEX Abstract: Is more always better? We address this question in the context of bibliometric indices that aim to assess the scientific impact of individual researchers by counting their number of highly cited publications. We propose a simple model in which the number of citations of a publication depends not only on the scientific impact of the publication but also on other 'random' factors. Our model indicates that more need not always be better. It turns out that the most influential researchers may have a systematically lower performance, in terms of highly cited publications, than some of their less influential colleagues. The model also suggests an improved way of counting highly cited publications. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Addresses: [Waltman, Ludo; van Eck, Nees Jan; Wouters, Paul] Leiden Univ, Ctr Sci & Technol Studies, NL-2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands. E-mail Addresses: waltmanlr at cwts.leidenuniv.nl; ecknjpvan at cwts.leidenuniv.nl; p.twouters at cwts.leidenuniv.nl Cited Reference Count: 19 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 1751-1577 Web of Science Categories: Information Science & Library Science Research Areas: Information Science & Library Science IDS Number: 210UH Unique ID: WOS:000323859700007 Cited References: Leydesdorff Loet, 2011, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V62, P1370 DIEKS D, 1976, SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE, V6, P247 Hirsch JE, 2005, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V102, P16569 MARTIN BR, 1983, RESEARCH POLICY, V12, P61 Bornmann Lutz, 2013, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V7, P100 Waltman Ludo, 2013, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V64, P372 Van Raan AFJ, 1998, SCIENTOMETRICS, V43, P129 Marchant Thierry, 2009, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V60, P1132 Nicolaisen Jeppe, 2007, ANNUAL REVIEW OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V41, P609 Simkin M. V., 2003, Complex Systems, V14, P269 PLOMP R, 1994, SCIENTOMETRICS, V29, P377 Simkin MV, 2005, SCIENTOMETRICS, V62, P367 Bornmann Luti, 2008, JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION, V64, P45 Moed H. F., 2005, Citation analysis in research evaluation, Ravallion Martin, 2011, SCIENTOMETRICS, V88, P321 PLOMP R, 1990, SCIENTOMETRICS, V19, P185 MORAVCSIK MJ, 1975, SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE, V5, P86 Waltman Ludo, 2012, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V63, P406 PRICE DJD, 1976, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE, V27, P292 ======================================================================= *Record 38 of 40. Search terms matched: CITATION(1) *View Full Record: http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=Alerting&SrcApp=Alerting&DestApp=WOS&DestLinkType=FullRecord;UT=WOS:000323859700005 *Order Full Text [ ] Title: The influences of counting methods on university rankings based on paper count and *citation* count Authors: Lin, CS; Huang, MH; Chen, DZ Author Full Names: Lin, Chi-Shiou; Huang, Mu-Hsuan; Chen, Dar-Zen Source: JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, 7 (3):611-621; 10.1016/j.joi.2013.03.007 2013 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Counting method, University ranking, Research evaluation, Paper count, Citation count KeyWords Plus: PUBLICATION; PRODUCTIVITY Abstract: In an age of intensifying scientific collaboration, the counting of papers by multiple authors has become an important methodological issue in scientometric based research evaluation. Especially, how counting methods influence institutional level research evaluation has not been studied in existing literatures. In this study, we selected the top 300 universities in physics in the 2011 HEEACT Ranking as our study subjects. We compared the university rankings generated from four different counting methods (i.e. whole counting, straight counting using first author, straight counting using corresponding author, and fractional counting) to show how paper counts and citation counts and the subsequent university ranks were affected by counting method selection. The counting was based on the 1988-2008 physics papers records indexed in ISI WoS. We also observed how paper and citation counts were inflated by whole counting. The results show that counting methods affected the universities in the middle range more than those in the upper or lower ranges. Citation counts were also more affected than paper counts. The correlation between the rankings generated from whole counting and those from the other methods were low or negative in the middle ranges. Based on the findings, this study concluded that straight counting and fractional counting were better choices for paper count and citation count in the institutional level research evaluation. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Addresses: [Lin, Chi-Shiou; Huang, Mu-Hsuan] Natl Taiwan Univ, Dept Lib & Informat Sci, Taipei 10617, Taiwan. [Chen, Dar-Zen] Natl Taiwan Univ, Dept Mech Engn, Taipei 10764, Taiwan. [Chen, Dar-Zen] Natl Taiwan Univ, Inst Ind Engn, Taipei 10764, Taiwan. E-mail Addresses: chishioulin at ntu.edu.tw; mhhuang at ntu.edu.tw; dzchen at ntu.edu.tw Cited Reference Count: 23 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 1751-1577 Web of Science Categories: Information Science & Library Science Research Areas: Information Science & Library Science IDS Number: 210UH Unique ID: WOS:000323859700005 Cited References: Gauffriau Marianne, 2008, SCIENTOMETRICS, V77, P147 Gauffriau Marianne, 2007, SCIENTOMETRICS, V73, P175 Leiden Ranking, 2012, Methodology, Pickvance C. G., 2001, Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, V16, P7 Larsen P. O., 2007, 12th nordic workshop on bibliometrics and research policy, September 18, Huang M.-H., 2011, Journal of Library and Information Studies, V9, P1 Gauffriau M., 2005, Proceedings of ISSI 2005, P242 Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan, 2010, Indicators, RINIA EJ, 1993, SCIENTOMETRICS, V28, P89 Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan, 2011, HEEACT 2010 physics, Poh KL, 2001, R & D MANAGEMENT, V31, P63 Van Raan AFJ, 2005, SCIENTOMETRICSConference on Bibliometric Analysis in Science and Research, NOV 05-07, 2003, Julich, GERMANY, V62, P133 Larsen P. O., 2007, Scientometrics, V77, P235 NTU Ranking, 2012, Methodology, Garfield Eugene, 2006, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY, V35, P1123 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), 2011, Ranking methodology, SCImago Journal & Country Rank (SJR), 2012, SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) indicator, Aguillo Isidro F., 2010, SCIENTOMETRICS, V85, P243 Taylor A., 2004, The organization of information, Gauffriau M, 2005, SCIENTOMETRICS, V64, P85 Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), 2011, Data indicator, Huang Mu-Hsuan, 2011, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V62, P2427 GARFIELD E, 1963, AMERICAN DOCUMENTATION, V14, P195 ======================================================================= ======================================================================= *View Full Record: http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=Alerting&SrcApp=Alerting&DestApp=WOS&DestLinkType=FullRecord;UT=WOS:000323818600009 *Order Full Text [ ] Title: Mapping the literature of health care chaplaincy Authors: Johnson, E; Dodd-McCue, D; Tartaglia, A; McDaniel, J Author Full Names: Johnson, Emily; Dodd-McCue, Diane; Tartaglia, Alexander; McDaniel, Jennifer Source: JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, 101 (3):199-204; 10.3163/1536-5050.101.3.009 JUL 2013 Language: English Document Type: Article Abstract: Objective: This study examined citation patterns and indexing coverage from 2008 to 2010 to determine (1) the core literature of health care chaplaincy and (2) the resources providing optimum coverage for the literature. Methods: Citations from three source journals (2008-2010 inclusive) were collected and analyzed according to the protocol created for the Mapping the Literature of Allied Health Professions Project. An analysis of indexing coverage by five databases was conducted. A secondary analysis of self-citations by source journals was also conducted. Results: The 3 source journals-Chaplaincy Today, the Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy, and the Journal of Pastoral Care and Counseling-ranked as the top 3 journals in Zone 1 and provided the highest number of most frequently cited articles for health care chaplaincy. Additional journals that appeared in this highly productive zone covered the disciplines of medicine, psychology, nursing, and religion, which were also represented in the Zones 2 and 3 journals. None of the databases provided complete coverage for the core journals; however, MEDLINE provided the most comprehensive coverage for journals in Zones 1 and 2, followed by Academic Search Complete, CINAHL, PsycINFO, and ATLA. Self-citations for the source journals ranged from 9% to 16%. Conclusions: Health care chaplaincy draws from a diverse body of inter-professional literature. Libraries wishing to provide access to journal literature to support health care chaplaincy at their institutions will be best able to do this by subscribing to databases and journals that cover medical, psychological, nursing, and religion-or spirituality-focused disciplines. Addresses: [Johnson, Emily; McDaniel, Jennifer] Virginia Commonwealth Univ, Tompkins McCaw Lib Hlth Sci, Richmond, VA 23298 USA. [Dodd-McCue, Diane; Tartaglia, Alexander] Virginia Commonwealth Univ, Sch Allied Hlth Profess, Dept Patient Counseling, Richmond, VA 23298 USA. E-mail Addresses: ejohnson24 at vcu.edu; ddoddmccue at vcu.edu; aftartag at vcu.edu; jamcdaniel at vcu.edu Cited Reference Count: 12 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOC, 65 EAST WACKER PLACE, STE 1900, CHICAGO, IL 60601-7298 USA ISSN: 1536-5050 Web of Science Categories: Information Science & Library Science Research Areas: Information Science & Library Science IDS Number: 210GM Unique ID: WOS:000323818600009 Cited References: Tartaglia A, 2012, Electronic correspondence with Beth Stalec, Association of Professional Chaplains, 2012, Standards of practice, Joint Commission, 2012, Hospital manual standard PC.02.02.13, Delwiche FA, 2010, Mapping the literature of nursing and allied health professions: project protocol, O'Connell KA, 2006, SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE, V62, P1486 Joint Commission, 2012, Hospital manual standard RI.01.01.01, Garfield E, 2002, Journal self-citation in the Journal Citation Reports. science ed, Landro L, 2011, Wall Street J, Schloman BF, 1997, BULLETIN OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, V85, P271 VandeCreek L., 2001, Journal of Pastoral Care, V55, P81 US Bureau of Labor Statistics Office of Occupational Statistics and Employment Projections, 2012, Employment projections: 2010-2020 summary, O*NET Online, 2011, Summary report for 31-9099.00 - healthcare support workers, all others, ======================================================================= *View Full Record: http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=Alerting&SrcApp=Alerting&DestApp=WOS&DestLinkType=FullRecord;UT=WOS:000323859700001 *Order Full Text [ ] Title: Alphabetization and the skewing of first authorship towards last names early in the alphabet Authors: Levitt, JM; Thelwall, M Author Full Names: Levitt, Jonathan M.; Thelwall, Mike Source: JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, 7 (3):575-582; 10.1016/j.joi.2013.03.002 2013 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Scientometrics, Research evaluation, Collaboration KeyWords Plus: ORDER; PUBLICATION; ECONOMICS; QUALITY; SURNAME; CREDIT Abstract: The practice of listing co-author surnames in alphabetical order, irrespective of their contribution, can make it difficult to effectively allocate research credit to authors. This article compares the percentages of articles with co-authors in alphabetical order (alphabetization) for two-author, three-author and four-author articles in eighteen social sciences in 1995 and 2010 to assess how widespread this practice is. There is some degree of alphabetization in all disciplines except one but the level varies substantially between disciplines. This level is increasing slightly over time, on average, but it has increased substantially in a few disciplines and decreased in others, showing that the practice of alphabetization is not fading away. A high correlation between alphabetical order and the proportion of first authors near the beginning of the alphabet confirms that high percentages of alphabetical order could affect the appropriate allocation of research credit. Similar patterns were found for science and the humanities. Finally, since some degree of alphabetization is almost universal in social science disciplines, this practice may be affecting careers throughout the social sciences and hence seems indefensible. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Addresses: [Levitt, Jonathan M.] Univ Loughborough, Dept Informat Sci, Loughborough LE11 3TU, Leics, England. [Levitt, Jonathan M.; Thelwall, Mike] Wolverhampton Univ, Sch Technol, Stat Cybermetr Res Grp, Wolverhampton WV1 1LY, W Midlands, England. E-mail Addresses: j.levitt at lboro.ac.uk; m.thelwall at wlv.ac.uk Cited Reference Count: 21 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 1751-1577 Web of Science Categories: Information Science & Library Science Research Areas: Information Science & Library Science IDS Number: 210UH Unique ID: WOS:000323859700001 Cited References: RUDD E, 1977, SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE, V7, P268 Tol Richard S. J., 2011, SCIENTOMETRICS, V89, P291 van Praag C. Mirjam, 2008, ECONOMICA, V75, P782 Birnholtz Jeremy P., 2007, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V58, P2226 Laband David, 2006, APPLIED ECONOMICS, V38, P1649 Costas Rodrigo, 2011, SCIENTOMETRICS, V88, P145 Joseph K, 2005, SOUTHERN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, V71, P545 Marusic A., 2011, PLoS ONE, V6, Hilmer CE, 2005, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS, V87, P509 Davenport E, 2001, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V52, P770 Chambers R, 2001, BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL, V323, P1460 Einav L, 2006, JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES, V20, P175 Baerlocher Mark Otto, 2007, JOURNAL OF INVESTIGATIVE MEDICINE, V55, P174 Waltman Ludo, 2012, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V6, P700 Savitz DA, 1999, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY, V149, P401 Hagen Nils T., 2010, SCIENTOMETRICS, V84, P785 Frandsen Tove Faber, 2010, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V4, P608 HODGE SE, 1981, SCIENCE, V213, P950 Good I. J., 1989, American Statistician, V42, P288 Engers M, 1999, JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, V107, P859 Laband DN, 2002, LABOUR ECONOMICS, V9, P125 ======================================================================= *View Full Record: http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=Alerting&SrcApp=Alerting&DestApp=WOS&DestLinkType=FullRecord;UT=WOS:000323859700008 *Order Full Text [ ] Title: A longitudinal comparison of citation rates and growth among open access journals Authors: Solomon, DJ; Laakso, M; Bjork, BC Author Full Names: Solomon, David J.; Laakso, Mikael; Bjork, Bo-Christer Source: JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, 7 (3):642-650; 10.1016/j.joi.2013.03.008 2013 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Open access, Citation rate, Scopus, Article Processing Charge KeyWords Plus: SCOPUS Abstract: The study documents the growth in the number of journals and articles along with the increase in normalized citation rates of open access (OA) journals listed in the Scopus bibliographic database between 1999 and 2010. Longitudinal statistics on growth in journals/articles and citation rates are broken down by funding model, discipline, and whether the journal was launched or had converted to OA. The data were retrieved from the websites of SCIMago Journal and Country Rank (journal/article counts), JournalM3trics (SNIP2 values), Scopus (journal discipline) and Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) (OA and funding status). OA journals/articles have grown much faster than subscription journals but still make up less that 12% of the journals in Scopus. Two-year citation averages for journals funded by Article Processing Charges (APCs) have reached the same level as subscription journals. Citation averages of OA journals funded by other means continue to lag well behind OA journals funded by APCs and subscription journals. We hypothesize this is less an issue of quality than due to the fact that such journals are commonly published in languages other than English and tend to be located outside the four major publishing countries. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Addresses: [Solomon, David J.] Michigan State Univ, Dept Med, E Lansing, MI 48824 USA. [Solomon, David J.] Michigan State Univ, OMERAD, E Lansing, MI 48824 USA. [Laakso, Mikael; Bjork, Bo-Christer] Hanken Sch Econ, Helsinki 00101, Finland. E-mail Addresses: dsolomon at msu.edu; mikael.laakso at hanken.fi; bo-christer.bjork at hanken.fi Cited Reference Count: 25 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 1751-1577 Web of Science Categories: Information Science & Library Science Research Areas: Information Science & Library Science IDS Number: 210UH Unique ID: WOS:000323859700008 Cited References: Moed Henk F., 2010, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V4, P265 [Anonymous], 2013, JournalM3trics Research Analytics Redefined, Gumpenberger C., Scientometrics, Willinsky J, 2006, The access principle, Bjork B.-C., 2012, BMC Medicine, V20, SCIMago, 2007, SJR-SCImago journal & Counny Rank, Sotudeh Hajar, 2007, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V58, P1578 Butler Declan, 2008, NATURE, V454, P11 BOAI, 2002, Budapest Open Access Initiative, Suber P., 2007, Scholarly societies and open access publishing - Full OA journals list, Laakso Mikael, 2012, BMC MEDICINE, V10, McVeigh M., 2004, Open access journals in the ISI citation databases: Analysis of impact factors and citation patterns: A citation study from Thomson Scientific, Elsevier, 2012, What does it Cover? Content coverage guide for SciVerse/Scopus, Beall J., 2012, Nature News, V489, Bjork B.-C., 2009, Information Research, V14, CWTS Journal Indicators, 2013, CWTS Journal Indicators, Kaehler Ove, 2010, LEARNED PUBLISHING, V23, P336 Miguel Sandra, 2011, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V62, P1130 DOAJ, 2012, The Directory of Open Access Journals - Full list of titles, Rossner Mike, 2007, JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY, V179, P1091 Kurmis AP, 2003, JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY-AMERICAN VOLUME, V85A, P2449 Giglia E., 2010, Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Electronic Publishing (ELPUB 2010), 16-18 June, Helsinki, Finland, P17 Suber P., 2012, Open access, P230 Gargouri Y., 2012, 17th international conference on Science and Technology Indicators (STI), 05-08 September, Montreal, CA, P11 Laakso Mikael, 2011, PLOS ONE, V6, ======================================================================= *View Full Record: http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=Alerting&SrcApp=Alerting&DestApp=WOS&DestLinkType=FullRecord;UT=WOS:000323859700020 *Order Full Text [ ] Title: Quantitative evaluation of alternative field normalization procedures Authors: Li, YR; Radicchi, F; Castellano, C; Ruiz-Castillo, J Author Full Names: Li, Yunrong; Radicchi, Filippo; Castellano, Claudio; Ruiz-Castillo, Javier Source: JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, 7 (3):746-755; 10.1016/j.joi.2013.06.001 2013 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Citation analysis, Citation practices, Normalization procedures, Citation inequality KeyWords Plus: JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; RESEARCH PERFORMANCE; SCIENTOMETRIC INDICATORS; CITATION DISTRIBUTIONS; PUBLICATIONS; COUNTS; SCORES; SCALES; OUTPUT; INDEX Abstract: Wide differences in publication and citation practices make impossible the direct comparison of raw citation counts across scientific disciplines. Recent research has studied new and traditional normalization procedures aimed at suppressing as much as possible these disproportions in citation numbers among scientific domains. Using the recently introduced IDCP (Inequality due to Differences in Citation Practices) method, this paper rigorously tests the performance of six cited-side normalization procedures based on the Thomson Reuters classification system consisting of 172 sub-fields. We use six yearly datasets from 1980 to 2004, with widely varying citation windows from the publication year to May 2011. The main findings are the following three. Firstly, as observed in previous research, within each year the shapes of sub-field citation distributions are strikingly similar. This paves the way for several normalization procedures to perform reasonably well in reducing the effect on citation inequality of differences in citation practices. Secondly, independently of the year of publication and the length of the citation window, the effect of such differences represents about 13% of total citation inequality. Thirdly, a recently introduced two-parameter normalization scheme outperforms the other normalization procedures over the entire period, reducing citation disproportions to a level very close to the minimum achievable given the data and the classification system. However, the traditional procedure of using sub-field mean citations as normalization factors yields also good results. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Addresses: [Li, Yunrong; Ruiz-Castillo, Javier] Univ Carlos III Madrid, Dept Econ, E-28903 Getafe, Spain. [Radicchi, Filippo] Univ Rovira & Virgili, Dept Engn Quim, Tarragona, Spain. [Castellano, Claudio] Sapienza Univ Roma, Ist Sistemi Complessi ISC CNR, Rome, Italy. [Castellano, Claudio] Sapienza Univ Roma, Dipartimento Fis, Rome, Italy. E-mail Addresses: jrc at eco.uc3m.es Cited Reference Count: 43 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 1751-1577 Web of Science Categories: Information Science & Library Science Research Areas: Information Science & Library Science IDS Number: 210UH Unique ID: WOS:000323859700020 Cited References: MacRoberts MH, 1996, SCIENTOMETRICS, V36, P435 Leydesdorff L., 2012, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Albarran Pedro, 2011, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V5, P48 Radicchi Filippo, 2012, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V6, P121 MOED HF, 1985, RESEARCH POLICY, V14, P131 Moed Henk F., 2010, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V4, P265 Leydesdorff L., 2012, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, V62, P217 Moed H. F., 1988, P177 VINKLER P, 1986, SCIENTOMETRICS, V10, P157 Hirsch JE, 2005, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V102, P16569 Schubert A., 1988, P137 Van Eck N. J., 2012, PloS ONE, SCHUBERT A, 1986, SCIENTOMETRICS, V9, P281 Leydesdorff Loet, 2010, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V4, P644 Schubert A., 1983, Proceedings of the first national conference with international participation in scientometrics and linguistics of scientific text, Varna, Crespo J. A., 2013, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Glaenzel Wolfgang, 2011, SCIENTOMETRICS, V87, P415 MOED HF, 1995, SCIENTOMETRICS, V33, P381 Crespo Juan A., 2013, PLOS ONE, V8, Waltman L., 2012, Scientometrics, MACROBERTS MH, 1989, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE, V40, P342 Waltman L., 2011, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, V63, P72 Schubert A, 1996, SCIENTOMETRICS, V36, P311 Braun T., 1985, Scientometrics indicators. A 32 country comparison of publication productivity and citation impact, Pudovkin AI, 2002, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V53, P1113 Vinkler P, 2003, SCIENTOMETRICS, V58, P687 Glaenzel Wolfgang, 2011, JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE, V37, P40 Abramo Giovanni, 2012, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V6, P645 SCHUBERT A, 1987, SCIENTOMETRICS, V12, P267 Kinney A. L., 2007, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V104, P17943 Albarran Pedro, 2011, SCIENTOMETRICS, V88, P385 Waltman L., 2013, A systematic empirical comparison of different approaches for normalizing citation impact indicators, Albarran Pedro, 2011, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V5, P122 DAVIS P, 1984, AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW, V74, P225 Garfield E, 2006, JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, V295, P90 Egghe Leo, 2006, SCIENTOMETRICS, V69, P131 Li Y., 2013, Working Paper 13-05, Adler Robert, 2009, STATISTICAL SCIENCE, V24, P1 Radicchi Filippo, 2012, PLOS ONE, V7, Zitt Michel, 2008, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V59, P1856 Bornmann Lutz, 2013, EMBO REPORTS, V14, P226 Bornmann Luti, 2008, JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION, V64, P45 Radicchi Filippo, 2008, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V105, P17268 ======================================================================= *View Full Record: http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=Alerting&SrcApp=Alerting&DestApp=WOS&DestLinkType=FullRecord;UT=WOS:000324027900002 *Order Full Text [ ] Title: Analysis of references used by researchers in the journal Gestao & Producao Authors: de Andrade, FS; Jung, CF Author Full Names: de Andrade, Fabiana Souza; Jung, Carlos Fernando Source: TRANSINFORMACAO, 25 (1):19-25; 2013 Language: Portuguese Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Bibliometric analysis, Quantitative analysis, Metrics study, Scientific production, References KeyWords Plus: OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT Abstract: This article presents the results of a descriptive research with quantitative approach and strategy based on the documentary method, with the aim of analyzing the references listed in articles appearing in regular publications of the Journal "Gestao & Producao" by adapting the concepts of bibliometric citation analysis. Given the objective of the research, an analysis was made of the reference lists specifying: 1) how subjects investigated the documents referenced in the articles, 2) as elements of deterministic variables obtained by analyzing references and, 3) as the type of bibliographic research resource. Based on these parameters, documents were analyzed used in the theoretical basis of the articles by means of identification, mapping and quantitative determination: a) of the items listed in each study; b) the mean life of the literature; c) the language; d) the frequency of use of references and; e) research front. As a result, the main aspects of the sources of researches on which studies in Production Engineering and its sub areas are based were mapped. Addresses: [de Andrade, Fabiana Souza; Jung, Carlos Fernando] Univ Fed Rio Grande do Sul, Programa Posgrad Engn Prod, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. E-mail Addresses: bia.souzandrade at gmail.com Cited Reference Count: 44 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDADE CATOLICA CAMPINAS, NUCLEO EDITORACAO SBI-CCV, CAMPUS II AV JOHN BOYD DUNLOP S-N PREDIO ONTOLOGIA JD IPAUSSURAMA, CAMPINAS, SP 13060-904, BRAZIL ISSN: 0103-3786 Web of Science Categories: Information Science & Library Science Research Areas: Information Science & Library Science IDS Number: 213BK Unique ID: WOS:000324027900002 Cited References: BARATA G., 2010, Revista Eletronica de Jornalismo Cientifico, EISENHARDT KM, 1989, ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW, V14, P532 NORONHA D.P., 2000, Fontes de informacao para pesquisadores e profissionais, P249 CHIARI I.G., 2007, As citacoes como base da rede social egocentrica: o artigo citado e suas conexoes, MALHOTRA N.K., 2001, Pesquisa de marketing, ASSOCIACAO BRASILEIRA DE NORMAS TECNICAS, 2002, NBR 6023: informacao e documentacao: referencias: elaboracao, HAX A.C., 1984, Production and inventory management, RUDIO F.V., 1978, Introducao ao projeto de pesquisa cientifica, MARTINS C.B.B., 2008, ENCONTRO DE INICIACAO CIENTIFICA E POS-GRADUACAO DO ITA, 14., 2008, Sao Jose dos Campos, YIN R.K., 2005, Estudo de caso: planejamento e metodos, Forza C, 2002, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OPERATIONS & PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT, V22, P152 Gross P L, 1927, Science (New York, N.Y.), V66, P385 MONDEN Y., 1984, Sistema Toyota de producao, FORESTI N.A.B., 1991, Ciencia da Informacao, V19, P53 Coughlan P, 2002, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OPERATIONS & PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT, V22, P220 ADLER R., 2009, Mediacoes, V14, P69 VOLPATO G.L., 2005, ENCONTRO SOBRE METODOLOGIA CIENTIFICA, 2., 2005, Piracicaba, WHEELWRIGHT S.C., 1992, Revolutionizing product development: quantum leaps in speed, efficiency, and quality, MACEDO T.S., 2011, DELTA, V27, P257 CLARK K.B., 1991, Product development performance, SLACK N., 1997, Administracao da producao, Voss C, 2002, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OPERATIONS & PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT, V22, P195 SLACK N., 2002, Administracao da producao, PRAHALAD CK, 1990, HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW, V68, P79 BURTON RE, 1960, AMERICAN DOCUMENTATION, V11, P18 LALOE F., 2009, V40, P1 LEAL J., 2010, Revista Digital de Biblioteconomia e Ciencia da Informacao, V8, P12 HAMILTON DP, 1991, SCIENCE, V251, P25 ROZENFELD H., 2006, Gestao de desenvolvimento de produto, Yin R.K., 1994, Case Study Research: Design and Methods, Volpato Gilson Luiz, 2003, Pesquisa odontol?gica brasileira = Brazilian oral research, V17 Suppl 1, P49 LINS M.P.E., 2010, RBPG, V7, P14 GARFIELD E, 1955, SCIENCE, V122, P108 FORESTI N.A.B., 1989, Estudo da contribuicao das revistas brasileiras de biblioteconomia e ciencia da informacao enquanto fonte de referencia para a pesquisa, GIL A.C., 2002, Como elaborar projetos de pesquisa, KAPLAN R.S., 1997, Estrategia em acao, SORDI J.O., 2008, Perspectivas em Ciencia da Informacao, V13, P168 BRYMAN A., 1989, Research methods and organization studies, HARZING A.W., 2007, Publish or perish, YIN R.K., 2001, Estudo de caso: planejamento e metodos, APPOLINARIO F., 2009, Dicionario de metodologia cientifica: um guia para a producao do conhecimento cientifico, PIRES S.R.I., 2004, Gestao da cadeia de suprimentos, GESTAO & PRODUCAO, 1994, Law A. M., 1991, Simulation Modeling and Analysis, ======================================================================= *View Full Record: http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=Alerting&SrcApp=Alerting&DestApp=WOS&DestLinkType=FullRecord;UT=WOS:000322801300039 *Order Full Text [ ] Title: Recent Trend and Perspectives in Forensic Anthropology: A Bibliometric Analysis Authors: Gualdi-Russo, E; Fonti, G Author Full Names: Gualdi-Russo, Emanuela; Fonti, Giulia Source: COLLEGIUM ANTROPOLOGICUM, 37 (2):595-599; JUN 2013 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: forensic anthropology, bibliometrics, content analysis, research trend Abstract: This paper evaluates research in Forensic Anthropology (FA) in order to report on the state of this field of science. In particular, we carried out a review of all PubMed-listed scientific studies in the past decades using "forensic anthropology" as the keyword. In our "meta-analysis", we observed variation in the number of publications per 2-year interval throughout the study period. In total, 1589 studies were found in the database and 1292 of them were published in the period 2000-2009. There was a significant positive correlation between the number of published articles and time (subdivided into 2-year intervals). The rate of increase was lower in the last decade. Based on the observed trend, we expect that the phenomenon will continue in the near future, reaching a number close to 400 FA publications in PubMed in the biennium 2012-13. We also carried out a specific content analysis of all FA papers published in the journal Forensic Science International in the last decade. During this period, the majority of FA papers concerned skeletal biology, although there was a positive shift toward virtual anthropological studies. Addresses: [Gualdi-Russo, Emanuela; Fonti, Giulia] Univ Ferrara, Dept Biomed & Specialty Surg Sci, I-44121 Ferrara, Italy. [Gualdi-Russo, Emanuela; Fonti, Giulia] Forens Sci Technol Ctr, Consorzio Ferrara Ric, FORENlab, Ferrara, Italy. E-mail Addresses: emanuela.gualdi at unife.it Cited Reference Count: 17 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: COLLEGIUM ANTROPOLOGICUM, INST ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH, GAJEVA 32, PO BOX 290, HR-10000 ZAGREB, CROATIA ISSN: 0350-6134 Web of Science Categories: Anthropology Research Areas: Anthropology IDS Number: 196TW Unique ID: WOS:000322801300039 Cited References: Dirkmaat Dennis C., 2008, YEARBOOK OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, VOL 51, V51, P33 BRICKLEY MB, 2007, Forensic Anthropology. Case study from Europe, ISCAN MY, 1988, YEARBOOK OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, V31, P203 Cuculic Drazen, 2012, COLLEGIUM ANTROPOLOGICUM, V36, P681 SCHWIDETZKY I, 1954, Hum Biol, V26, P21 DUDAY H, 2006, Lezioni di Archeotanatologia. Archeologia funeraria e antropologia di campo, Marinovic Dunja, 2011, COLLEGIUM ANTROPOLOGICUM, V35, P347 Meijerman L, 2006, MEDICINE SCIENCE AND THE LAW, V46, P141 Ma Minhua, 2010, JOURNAL OF FORENSIC SCIENCES, V55, P1227 Hens Samantha M., 2008, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, V137, P234 SORG MH, 1997, Forensic taphonomy, Jones Alan Wayne, 2007, FORENSIC SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL, V165, P115 Cattaneo Cristina, 2007, FORENSIC SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL, V165, P185 UBELAKER DH, 2006, Forensic Anthropology and Medicine, Kranioti Elena F., 2011, JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCES, V89, P71 MEZZARO P, 2010, Corso di base in Balistica Forense, Brinkmann B., 2007, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LEGAL MEDICINE, V121, P431 ======================================================================= *View Full Record: http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=Alerting&SrcApp=Alerting&DestApp=WOS&DestLinkType=FullRecord;UT=WOS:000323858300008 *Order Full Text [ ] Title: BIBLIOMETRIC STUDY (1922-2009) ON RUGBY ARTICLES IN RESEARCH JOURNALS Authors: Martin, I; Olmo, J; Chirosa, LJ; Carreras, D; Sola, J Author Full Names: Martin, Ignacio; Olmo, Jesus; Chirosa, Luis J.; Carreras, David; Sola, Jordi Source: SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH IN SPORT PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND RECREATION, 35 (1):105-119; 2013 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Rugby, Bibliometric study, Scientific literature, Bibliometric laws of Lotka and Price, Law of Obsolescence in scientific literature, Bradford's law KeyWords Plus: PHYSICAL-ACTIVITY; DOCUMENTARY ANALYSIS; LOTKA LAW; SCIENCE; SPORT; OBSOLESCENCE; PRODUCTIVITY; PSYCHOLOGY; TRENDS; FIELD Abstract: The purpose of this research was to perform a bibliometric analysis of research journals containing scientific articles on the sport of rugby from 1922 to 2009. In this field 2057 articles were selected from major databases. The journals, authors and contents published were selected by taking into account the year of publication, thematic areas and modalities of rugby among other variables. A steady increase in production was found in the period considered, with a maximum of 174 articles published in 2007. The articles were written by an average of 2.5 authors and most of them (80.9%) only participated in one. The data showed a utility loss of 7.5% of the total items each year. The thematic areas and most influential journals on rugby had been identified. Finally, limited support has been found for attempting to adjust the bibliometric data by applying the laws of Lotka and Price with respect to the authors, and Bradford's law regarding scientific journals. Addresses: [Martin, Ignacio] Univ Granada, Fac Psychol, Dept Methodol, E-18071 Granada, Spain. [Olmo, Jesus] Quiron Hosp, Dept Rehabil & Sports Med, Madrid, Spain. [Chirosa, Luis J.] Univ Granada, Fac Phys Activ & Sport Sci, E-18071 Granada, Spain. [Carreras, David] Univ Lleida, Natl Inst Catalonia Phys Educ INEFC, Lleida, Spain. [Sola, Jordi] Univ Barcelona, Natl Inst Catalonia Phys Educ INEFC, Barcelona, Spain. E-mail Addresses: imartin at ugr.es Cited Reference Count: 39 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: STELLENBOSCH UNIV, MARKETING & COMMUNICATION SECTION, PRIVATE BAG X1, MATIELAND, 7602, SOUTH AFRICA ISSN: 0379-9069 Web of Science Categories: Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary Research Areas: Social Sciences - Other Topics IDS Number: 210TT Unique ID: WOS:000323858300008 Cited References: Delwiche Frances A., 2007, JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, V95, P195 PEREZ M., 2008, Revista de Artes Marciales AsiaiticasAsian Martial Arts Revue, V3, P22 EGGBE L., 1990, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, V41, P469 Reid G, 1998, ADAPTED PHYSICAL ACTIVITY QUARTERLY, V15, P168 Ward Phillip, 2006, JOURNAL OF TEACHING IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION, V25, P266 DIODATO V., 1994, Dictionary of bibliometrics, PAO ML, 1985, INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT, V21, P305 LEIMKUHL.FF, 1967, JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION, V23, P197 Lidor R, 1999, JOURNAL OF AGING AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, V7, P182 Pulgarin A, 2004, INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT, V40, P365 LOTKA A.J., 1926, Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, V16, P317 ROUSSEAU R, 1987, JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION, V43, P322 IRB, 2009, Year in review 2009, DIODATO V, 1993, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE, V44, P101 ROUSSEAU R, 1994, INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT, V30, P267 Valenciano Valcarcel Javier, 2010, REVISTA ESPANOLA DE DOCUMENTACION CIENTIFICA, V33, P90 Tsigilis Nikolaos, 2010, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SPORT SCIENCE, V10, P81 BRADFORD S.C., 1948, Documentation, HEINEMANN K., 1990, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, V25, P3 HAWKINS D.T., 1977, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, V28, P13 Brookes B. C., 1970, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE, V21, P320 Sangam SL, 1999, SCIENTOMETRICS, V44, P33 REID G, 1995, ADAPT PHYS ACT Q, V12, P103 MCMILLAN J., 2006, P573 BRADFORD S.C., 1934, Engineering, V23, P85 BROOKES BC, 1969, NATURE, V224, P953 Gabbett TJ, 2005, JOURNAL OF SPORTS SCIENCES, V23, P961 ARBINAGA F., 2010, Revista de Psicologia del DeporteSport Psychology Revue, V19, P231 Mellalieu Stephen, 2008, JOURNAL OF SPORTS SCIENCES, V26, P791 NICHOLLS PT, 1986, INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT, V22, P417 Baker J, 2003, JOURNAL OF SPORT & EXERCISE PSYCHOLOGY, V25, P477 YAMAN H., 2007, Scientometrics, V71, P415 O'Connor J, 2001, ADAPTED PHYSICAL ACTIVITY QUARTERLY, V18, P434 Thompson B, 1996, BRITISH JOURNAL OF SPORTS MEDICINE, V30, P354 BURTON E., 1960, American Documentation, V11, P18 COLE F.J., 1917, Science Progress, V11, P578 Sheard K. G., 1997, International Journal of the History of Sport, V14, P116 de Solla Price D., 1963, Little Science, Big Science, WILLIAMS P., 2008, International Journal of the History of Sport, V25, P65 ======================================================================= *View Full Record: http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=Alerting&SrcApp=Alerting&DestApp=WOS&DestLinkType=FullRecord;UT=WOS:000324027900001 *Order Full Text [ ] Title: Normativity, technicity and/or scientificity of Librarianship Authors: Carvalho Silva, JL Author Full Names: Carvalho Silva, Jonathas Luiz Source: TRANSINFORMACAO, 25 (1):5-17; 2013 Language: Portuguese Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Librarianship, Scientificity, Normativity, Technicity KeyWords Plus: INFORMATION-SCIENCE; KNOWLEDGE Abstract: A condition is presented as a problematic issue that can be discussed from the following question: how does the process of construction of normativity, technicity and/or scientificity Librarianship occur? Discusses the construction of normativity, technicity and/or scientificity of Librarianship contemplating the prospects within the organization and processing of information, sources, resources and information services, professional practices and studies focusing on users. The study also examines the concept of norm and technique within the scope of science and applied research Librarianship, trying to reflect on the relevance of Information Science for the scientific and normative constructs of Librarianship. The methodology consists of an exploratory research with a bibliographic design. It was concluded that the Library has an essentially technical-normative connotation, but also has a scientific concept based on the contributions of Information Science to the context of user studies, technologies and other elements, in addition to other areas of knowledge of a social and technological nature. Addresses: Univ Fed Ceara, Curso Biblioteconomia, BR-63000000 Juazeiro Do Norte, CE, Brazil. E-mail Addresses: jonathascarvalhos at yahoo.com.br Cited Reference Count: 49 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDADE CATOLICA CAMPINAS, NUCLEO EDITORACAO SBI-CCV, CAMPUS II AV JOHN BOYD DUNLOP S-N PREDIO ONTOLOGIA JD IPAUSSURAMA, CAMPINAS, SP 13060-904, BRAZIL ISSN: 0103-3786 Web of Science Categories: Information Science & Library Science Research Areas: Information Science & Library Science IDS Number: 213BK Unique ID: WOS:000324027900001 Cited References: Cronin Blaise, 2008, JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE, V34, P465 POPPER K. R., 1973, Objective knowledge: an evolutionary approach, RANGANATHAN S.R., 1931, The five laws of library science, SARACEVIC T, 1996, Perspectivas em Ciencia da Informacao, V1, P41 SHERA JH, 1957, LIBRARY TRENDS, V6, P187 FREIRE G. H. A., 2012, Encontros Bibli, V17, P1 SHERA J.H., 1970, Sociological foundations of librarianship, HATT P. 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F., 2004, A ciencia da informacao, CarliniCotrim B, 1996, REVISTA DE SAUDE PUBLICA, V30, P285 TAYLOR RS, 1982, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE, V33, P341 ======================================================================= ======================================================================= *View Full Record: http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=Alerting&SrcApp=Alerting&DestApp=WOS&DestLinkType=FullRecord;UT=WOS:000324044100003 *Order Full Text [ ] Title: Publication Growth in Biological Sub-Fields: Patterns, Predictability and Sustainability Authors: Pautasso, M Author Full Names: Pautasso, Marco Source: SUSTAINABILITY, 4 (12):3234-3247; 10.3390/su4123234 DEC 2012 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: biological sciences, file-drawer problem, information overload, meta-knowledge, peak in scientific output, peer review, publication explosion, publish or perish, scientometrics, sustainable development KeyWords Plus: SCIENCE; KNOWLEDGE; OPPORTUNITY; FOOTPRINT; DYNAMICS; SYSTEM; OUTPUT; FUTURE Abstract: Biologists are producing ever-increasing quantities of papers. The question arises of whether current rates of increase in scientific outputs are sustainable in the long term. I studied this issue using publication data from the Web of Science (1991-2010) for 18 biological sub-fields. In the majority of cases, an exponential regression explains more variation than a linear one in the number of papers published each year as a function of publication year. Exponential growth in publication numbers is clearly not sustainable. About 75% of the variation in publication growth among biological sub-fields over the two studied decades can be predicted by publication data from the first six years. Currently trendy fields such as structural biology, neuroscience and biomaterials cannot be expected to carry on growing at the current pace, because in a few decades they would produce more papers than the whole of biology combined. Synthetic and systems biology are problematic from the point of view of knowledge dissemination, because in these fields more than 80% of existing papers have been published over the last five years. The evidence presented here casts a shadow on how sustainable the recent increase in scientific publications can be in the long term. Addresses: [Pautasso, Marco] CNRS, Ctr Funct & Evolutionary Ecol CEFE, F-34293 Montpellier, France. [Pautasso, Marco] FRB, Ctr Biodivers Synth & Anal CESAB, F-13857 Aix En Provence, France. E-mail Addresses: marco.pautasso at cefe.cnrs.fr Funding Acknowledgement: French Foundation for Research on Biodiversity (FRB) Funding Text: Many thanks to G. Hirsch, O. Holdenrieder, M. Jeger, D. McKey for insights and discussions, and to T. Beardsley, T. Matoni and anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on a previous draft. This study was partly funded by the French Foundation for Research on Biodiversity (FRB). 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N., 1986, Scientometrics, V8, P365 ======================================================================= Search terms matched: IMPACT FACTOR(4); RESEARCH(1) *View Full Record: http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=Alerting&SrcApp=Alerting&DestApp=WOS&DestLinkType=FullRecord;UT=WOS:000324326700022 *Order Full Text [ ] Title: Level of evidence of clinical spinal *research* and its correlation with journal *impact factor* Authors: Amiri, AR; Kanesalingam, K; Cro, S; Casey, ATH Author Full Names: Amiri, Amir Reza; Kanesalingam, Kavitha; Cro, Suzie; Casey, Adrian T. H. Source: SPINE JOURNAL, 13 (9):1148-1153; 10.1016/j.spinee.2013.05.026 SEP 2013 Language: English Document Type: Review Author Keywords: Level of evidence, Evidence-based medicine, Journal impact factor, Spinal surgery, Clinical research KeyWords Plus: ORTHOPEDIC JOURNALS; PUBLICATIONS; SURGERY Abstract: BACKGROUND: Over the past two decades, there has been a growing recognition and emphasis on the practice of evidence-based medicine (EBM). The level of evidence (LOE) is used to classify clinical studies based on their quality and design. To compare the quality of scientific journals, the *impact factor* (IF) is the most widely used ranking measure. However, the calculation of IF is not directly dependent on the quality or LOE of clinical articles published in a journal. PURPOSE: The primary aim of this study was to evaluate the current LOE for clinical research in leading spinal journals and assess the relationship between LOE and IF. We hypothesized that most clinical research would provide level IV evidence, and that a positive correlation would exist between the proportion of high LOE articles and the journal IF. STUDY DESIGN: A systematic review of all the articles in five general spinal journals was undertaken during 2010. SAMPLE: All online articles in The Spine Journal, Spine, European Spine Journal, Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine, and Journal of Spinal Disorders and Techniques during 2010, as well as supplements were included. OUTCOME MEASURE: The LOE for each clinical study was assessed using guidelines produced by the Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine. METHODS: Two reviewers independently assessed all articles. RESULTS: Overall 703 articles were suitable for LOE grading. Of these, 4.7% provided level I evidence, 23.2% level II, 12.5% level III, and 59.6% level IV. There was a significant association between LOE and type of study (p<.001); articles on therapeutic studies had the largest proportion (71.8%) of level IV evidence. There was a strong positive correlation between the proportion of level I and II evidence and the journal *impact factor* (rho=0.9; 95% confidence interval 0.1 to 0.99; p=.037). CONCLUSION: Spinal surgery journals with a higher IF contain a larger proportion of studies with high LOE, however most clinical articles provide level IV evidence of which the highest proportion are therapeutic studies. Clinicians, researchers, and journal editors should work hand in hand to enhance evidence-based practice in spinal care. (C) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Addresses: [Amiri, Amir Reza; Casey, Adrian T. H.] Royal Natl Orthopaed Hosp, Spinal Injury Unit, Stanmore HA7 4LP, Middx, England. [Kanesalingam, Kavitha] Univ S Manchester Hosp, Acad Surg Unit, Manchester M23 9LT, Lancs, England. [Cro, Suzie] MRC, Clin Trial Unit, London WC2B 6NH, England. E-mail Addresses: amir.r.amiri at googlemail.com Cited Reference Count: 17 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 360 PARK AVE SOUTH, NEW YORK, NY 10010-1710 USA ISSN: 1529-9430 Web of Science Categories: Clinical Neurology; Orthopedics Research Areas: Neurosciences & Neurology; Orthopedics IDS Number: 216ZT Unique ID: WOS:000324326700022 Cited References: Reuters Thomson, 2005, 2004 Journal citation reports, Hanzlik Shane, 2009, JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY-AMERICAN VOLUME, V91A, P425 HANSSON S, 1995, LANCET, V346, P906 1988, Basic statistical concepts, Lai TYY, 2006, INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE, V47, P1831 Obremskey WT, 2005, JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY-AMERICAN VOLUME, V87A, P2632 Borawski Kristy M., 2007, JOURNAL OF UROLOGY, V178, P1429 Gnanalingham KK, 2005, JOURNAL OF NEUROSURGERY, V103, P439 Wright JG, 2003, JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY-AMERICAN VOLUME, V85A, P1 Sackett DL, 1998, SPINE, V23, P1085 Seglen PO, 1997, BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL, V314, P498 Lau S. L., 2007, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY, V36, P1 Rothoerl RD, 2003, NEUROSURGICAL REVIEW, V26, P257 Wupperman Richard, 2007, SPINE, V32, P388 Garfield E, 1999, CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL, V161, P979 LANDIS JR, 1977, BIOMETRICS, V33, P159 Reuters Thomson, 2011, 2010 Journal citation reports, ======================================================================= Search terms matched: IMPACT FACTOR(3) *View Full Record: http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=Alerting&SrcApp=Alerting&DestApp=WOS&DestLinkType=FullRecord;UT=WOS:000324454400019 *Order Full Text [ ] Title: Coercive journal self citations, *impact factor*, Journal Influence and Article Influence Authors: Chang, CL; McAleer, M; Oxley, L Author Full Names: Chang, Chia-Lin; McAleer, Michael; Oxley, Les Source: MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTERS IN SIMULATION, 93 190-197; SI 10.1016/j.matcom.2013.04.006 JUL 2013 Language: English Document Type: Article; Proceedings Paper Conference Title: MSSANZ 19th Biennial Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM) Conference Date: DEC 12-16, 2011 Conference Location: Perth, AUSTRALIA Conference Sponsors: CSIRO, Australian Govt, Bur Meteorol, Per Convent & Exhibit Ctr, Perth Convent Bur, Curtin Univ, Australian Math Soc, Australian & New Zealand Ind & Appl Math, Australian Math Sci Inst, Maralte Publishers, Econ Soc Australian, HEMA Consulting, Simulat Australia, Stat Soc Australia Inc, Modelling & Simulat Soc Australia & New Zealand Inc, Int Assoc Math & Comp Simulat Author Keywords: Total Citations, 5-Year Impact Factor (5YIF), Eigenfactor, Journal Influence, Article Influence KeyWords Plus: EIGENFACTOR(TM) METRICS; GREAT Abstract: This paper examines the issue of coercive journal self citations and the practical usefulness of two recent journal performance metrics, namely the Eigenfactor score, which may be interpreted as measuring "Journal Influence", and the Article Influence score, using the Thomson Reuters IST Web of Science (hereafter IST) data for 2009 for the 200 most highly cited journals in each of the Sciences and Social Sciences. The paper also compares the two new bibliometric measures with two existing ISI metrics, namely Total Citations and the 5-Year *Impact Factor* (5YIF) (including journal self citations) of a journal. It is shown that the Sciences and Social Sciences are different in terms of the strength of the relationship of journal performance metrics, although the actual relationships are very similar. Moreover, the Journal Influence and Article Influence journal performance metrics are shown to be closely related empirically to the two existing ISI metrics, and hence add little in practical usefulness to what is already known, except for eliminating the pressure arising from coercive journal self citations. These empirical results are compared with existing results in the bibliometrics literature. (C) 2013 IMACS. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Addresses: [Chang, Chia-Lin] Natl Chung Hsing Univ, Dept Appl Econ, Taichung 402, Taiwan. [Chang, Chia-Lin] Natl Chung Hsing Univ, Dept Finance, Taichung 402, Taiwan. [McAleer, Michael] Erasmus Univ, Erasmus Sch Econ, Inst Econometr, Rotterdam, Netherlands. [McAleer, Michael] Tinbergen Inst, Amsterdam, Netherlands. [McAleer, Michael] Univ Complutense Madrid, Dept Quantitat Econ, E-28040 Madrid, Spain. [McAleer, Michael] Kyoto Univ, Inst Econ Res, Kyoto 6068501, Japan. [Oxley, Les] Univ Waikato, Dept Econ, Hamilton, New Zealand. E-mail Addresses: changchialin at nchu.edu.tw Cited Reference Count: 19 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 0378-4754 Web of Science Categories: Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications; Computer Science, Software Engineering; Mathematics, Applied Research Areas: Computer Science; Mathematics IDS Number: 218TC Unique ID: WOS:000324454400019 Cited References: Chang C.-L., 2012, Tourism Management Perspectives, V1, P2 Bergstrom Carl T., 2008, JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE, V28, P11433 Rousseau R., 2009, Bergstrom C., 2007, College & Research Libraries News, V68, P314 Fersht Alan, 2009, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V106, P6883 Bergstrom Carl T., 2008, NEUROLOGY, V71, P1850 Chang Chia-Lin, 2011, SCIENTOMETRICS, V87, P17 [Anonymous], 2010, ISI Web of Science, Journal Citation Reports, Essential Science Indicators, Elkins Mark R., 2010, SCIENTOMETRICS, V85, P81 Seglen PO, 1997, BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL, V314, P498 Franceschet Massimo, 2010, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V4, P239 Chang Chia-Lin, 2013, STATISTICA NEERLANDICA, V67, P27 Chang Chia-Lin, 2011, JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC SURVEYS, V25, P326 Arendt J., 2010, Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, P60 Chang Chia-Lin, 2011, JOURNAL OF APPLIED STATISTICS, V38, P2563 Wilhite Allen W., 2012, SCIENCE, V335, P542 Davis Philip M., 2008, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V59, P2186 Chang C.L., 2012, Robust Ranking of Journal Quality: An Application to Economics, V1204, Chang Chia-Lin, 2011, ECONOMETRIC REVIEWS, V30, P583 ======================================================================= Search terms matched: IMPACT FACTOR(1); RESEARCH(1) *View Full Record: http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=Alerting&SrcApp=Alerting&DestApp=WOS&DestLinkType=FullRecord;UT=WOS:000311554200002 *Order Full Text [ ] Title: Publication, citation and bibliometric assessment of *research* Authors: Goldfinch, S; Yamamoto, K Author Full Names: Goldfinch, Shaun; Yamamoto, Kiyoshi Book Author(s): Goldfinch, S (Goldfinch, S); Yamamoto, K (Yamamoto, K) Book Author Full Names: Goldfinch, S; Yamamoto, K Source: PROMETHEUS ASSESSED?: RESEARCH MEASUREMENT, PEER REVIEW, AND CITATION ANALYSIS, 45-83; 2012 Book Series: Chandos Information Professional Series Language: English Document Type: Article; Book Chapter Author 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. Addresses: [Goldfinch, Shaun] Univ Nottingham, Sch Business, Div Management, Nottingham NG7 2RD, England. [Yamamoto, Kiyoshi] Univ Tokyo, Tokyo 1138654, Japan. Cited Reference Count: 0 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: CHANDOS PUBL, 80 HIGH ST, SAWSTON, CAMBRIDGE CB22 3HJ, ENGLAND ISBN: 978-1-78063-301-5 Web of Science Categories: Information Science & Library Science Research Areas: Information Science & Library Science IDS Number: BCV03 Unique ID: WOS:000311554200002 ======================================================================= Search terms matched: IMPACT FACTOR(4); RESEARCH(1) *View Full Record: http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=Alerting&SrcApp=Alerting&DestApp=WOS&DestLinkType=FullRecord;UT=WOS:000324326700022 *Order Full Text [ ] Title: Level of evidence of clinical spinal *research* and its correlation with journal *impact factor* Authors: Amiri, AR; Kanesalingam, K; Cro, S; Casey, ATH Author Full Names: Amiri, Amir Reza; Kanesalingam, Kavitha; Cro, Suzie; Casey, Adrian T. H. Source: SPINE JOURNAL, 13 (9):1148-1153; 10.1016/j.spinee.2013.05.026 SEP 2013 Language: English Document Type: Review Author Keywords: Level of evidence, Evidence-based medicine, Journal impact factor, Spinal surgery, Clinical research KeyWords Plus: ORTHOPEDIC JOURNALS; PUBLICATIONS; SURGERY Abstract: BACKGROUND: Over the past two decades, there has been a growing recognition and emphasis on the practice of evidence-based medicine (EBM). The level of evidence (LOE) is used to classify clinical studies based on their quality and design. To compare the quality of scientific journals, the *impact factor* (IF) is the most widely used ranking measure. However, the calculation of IF is not directly dependent on the quality or LOE of clinical articles published in a journal. PURPOSE: The primary aim of this study was to evaluate the current LOE for clinical research in leading spinal journals and assess the relationship between LOE and IF. We hypothesized that most clinical research would provide level IV evidence, and that a positive correlation would exist between the proportion of high LOE articles and the journal IF. STUDY DESIGN: A systematic review of all the articles in five general spinal journals was undertaken during 2010. SAMPLE: All online articles in The Spine Journal, Spine, European Spine Journal, Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine, and Journal of Spinal Disorders and Techniques during 2010, as well as supplements were included. OUTCOME MEASURE: The LOE for each clinical study was assessed using guidelines produced by the Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine. METHODS: Two reviewers independently assessed all articles. RESULTS: Overall 703 articles were suitable for LOE grading. Of these, 4.7% provided level I evidence, 23.2% level II, 12.5% level III, and 59.6% level IV. There was a significant association between LOE and type of study (p<.001); articles on therapeutic studies had the largest proportion (71.8%) of level IV evidence. There was a strong positive correlation between the proportion of level I and II evidence and the journal *impact factor* (rho=0.9; 95% confidence interval 0.1 to 0.99; p=.037). CONCLUSION: Spinal surgery journals with a higher IF contain a larger proportion of studies with high LOE, however most clinical articles provide level IV evidence of which the highest proportion are therapeutic studies. Clinicians, researchers, and journal editors should work hand in hand to enhance evidence-based practice in spinal care. (C) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Addresses: [Amiri, Amir Reza; Casey, Adrian T. H.] Royal Natl Orthopaed Hosp, Spinal Injury Unit, Stanmore HA7 4LP, Middx, England. [Kanesalingam, Kavitha] Univ S Manchester Hosp, Acad Surg Unit, Manchester M23 9LT, Lancs, England. [Cro, Suzie] MRC, Clin Trial Unit, London WC2B 6NH, England. E-mail Addresses: amir.r.amiri at googlemail.com Cited Reference Count: 17 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 360 PARK AVE SOUTH, NEW YORK, NY 10010-1710 USA ISSN: 1529-9430 Web of Science Categories: Clinical Neurology; Orthopedics Research Areas: Neurosciences & Neurology; Orthopedics IDS Number: 216ZT Unique ID: WOS:000324326700022 Cited References: Reuters Thomson, 2005, 2004 Journal citation reports, Hanzlik Shane, 2009, JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY-AMERICAN VOLUME, V91A, P425 HANSSON S, 1995, LANCET, V346, P906 1988, Basic statistical concepts, Lai TYY, 2006, INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE, V47, P1831 Obremskey WT, 2005, JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY-AMERICAN VOLUME, V87A, P2632 Borawski Kristy M., 2007, JOURNAL OF UROLOGY, V178, P1429 Gnanalingham KK, 2005, JOURNAL OF NEUROSURGERY, V103, P439 Wright JG, 2003, JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY-AMERICAN VOLUME, V85A, P1 Sackett DL, 1998, SPINE, V23, P1085 Seglen PO, 1997, BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL, V314, P498 Lau S. L., 2007, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY, V36, P1 Rothoerl RD, 2003, NEUROSURGICAL REVIEW, V26, P257 Wupperman Richard, 2007, SPINE, V32, P388 Garfield E, 1999, CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL, V161, P979 LANDIS JR, 1977, BIOMETRICS, V33, P159 Reuters Thomson, 2011, 2010 Journal citation reports, ======================================================================= Search terms matched: IMPACT FACTOR(3) *View Full Record: http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=Alerting&SrcApp=Alerting&DestApp=WOS&DestLinkType=FullRecord;UT=WOS:000324454400019 *Order Full Text [ ] Title: Coercive journal self citations, *impact factor*, Journal Influence and Article Influence Authors: Chang, CL; McAleer, M; Oxley, L Author Full Names: Chang, Chia-Lin; McAleer, Michael; Oxley, Les Source: MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTERS IN SIMULATION, 93 190-197; SI 10.1016/j.matcom.2013.04.006 JUL 2013 Language: English Document Type: Article; Proceedings Paper Conference Title: MSSANZ 19th Biennial Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM) Conference Date: DEC 12-16, 2011 Conference Location: Perth, AUSTRALIA Conference Sponsors: CSIRO, Australian Govt, Bur Meteorol, Per Convent & Exhibit Ctr, Perth Convent Bur, Curtin Univ, Australian Math Soc, Australian & New Zealand Ind & Appl Math, Australian Math Sci Inst, Maralte Publishers, Econ Soc Australian, HEMA Consulting, Simulat Australia, Stat Soc Australia Inc, Modelling & Simulat Soc Australia & New Zealand Inc, Int Assoc Math & Comp Simulat Author Keywords: Total Citations, 5-Year Impact Factor (5YIF), Eigenfactor, Journal Influence, Article Influence KeyWords Plus: EIGENFACTOR(TM) METRICS; GREAT Abstract: This paper examines the issue of coercive journal self citations and the practical usefulness of two recent journal performance metrics, namely the Eigenfactor score, which may be interpreted as measuring "Journal Influence", and the Article Influence score, using the Thomson Reuters IST Web of Science (hereafter IST) data for 2009 for the 200 most highly cited journals in each of the Sciences and Social Sciences. The paper also compares the two new bibliometric measures with two existing ISI metrics, namely Total Citations and the 5-Year *Impact Factor* (5YIF) (including journal self citations) of a journal. It is shown that the Sciences and Social Sciences are different in terms of the strength of the relationship of journal performance metrics, although the actual relationships are very similar. Moreover, the Journal Influence and Article Influence journal performance metrics are shown to be closely related empirically to the two existing ISI metrics, and hence add little in practical usefulness to what is already known, except for eliminating the pressure arising from coercive journal self citations. These empirical results are compared with existing results in the bibliometrics literature. (C) 2013 IMACS. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Addresses: [Chang, Chia-Lin] Natl Chung Hsing Univ, Dept Appl Econ, Taichung 402, Taiwan. [Chang, Chia-Lin] Natl Chung Hsing Univ, Dept Finance, Taichung 402, Taiwan. [McAleer, Michael] Erasmus Univ, Erasmus Sch Econ, Inst Econometr, Rotterdam, Netherlands. [McAleer, Michael] Tinbergen Inst, Amsterdam, Netherlands. [McAleer, Michael] Univ Complutense Madrid, Dept Quantitat Econ, E-28040 Madrid, Spain. [McAleer, Michael] Kyoto Univ, Inst Econ Res, Kyoto 6068501, Japan. [Oxley, Les] Univ Waikato, Dept Econ, Hamilton, New Zealand. E-mail Addresses: changchialin at nchu.edu.tw Cited Reference Count: 19 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 0378-4754 Web of Science Categories: Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications; Computer Science, Software Engineering; Mathematics, Applied Research Areas: Computer Science; Mathematics IDS Number: 218TC Unique ID: WOS:000324454400019 Cited References: Chang C.-L., 2012, Tourism Management Perspectives, V1, P2 Bergstrom Carl T., 2008, JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE, V28, P11433 Rousseau R., 2009, Bergstrom C., 2007, College & Research Libraries News, V68, P314 Fersht Alan, 2009, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V106, P6883 Bergstrom Carl T., 2008, NEUROLOGY, V71, P1850 Chang Chia-Lin, 2011, SCIENTOMETRICS, V87, P17 [Anonymous], 2010, ISI Web of Science, Journal Citation Reports, Essential Science Indicators, Elkins Mark R., 2010, SCIENTOMETRICS, V85, P81 Seglen PO, 1997, BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL, V314, P498 Franceschet Massimo, 2010, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V4, P239 Chang Chia-Lin, 2013, STATISTICA NEERLANDICA, V67, P27 Chang Chia-Lin, 2011, JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC SURVEYS, V25, P326 Arendt J., 2010, Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, P60 Chang Chia-Lin, 2011, JOURNAL OF APPLIED STATISTICS, V38, P2563 Wilhite Allen W., 2012, SCIENCE, V335, P542 Davis Philip M., 2008, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V59, P2186 Chang C.L., 2012, Robust Ranking of Journal Quality: An Application to Economics, V1204, Chang Chia-Lin, 2011, ECONOMETRIC REVIEWS, V30, P583 ======================================================================= From dwolfram at UWM.EDU Mon Oct 28 19:40:18 2013 From: dwolfram at UWM.EDU (Dietmar Wolfram) Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 18:40:18 -0500 Subject: iConference 2014 Early Bird Registration Now Available In-Reply-To: <252342773.3802247.1383003514447.JavaMail.root@uwm.edu> Message-ID: Apologies for any duplicate postings ************************************************************************* iConference 2014: Early bird registration available through Dec. 15, 2013 4-7 March, 2014, Berlin, Germany http://ischools.org/the-iconference/ ************************************************************************* Registration is now open for iConference 2014, with discounted early rates available through December 15; standard rates apply thereafter. 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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 12:16:12 -0400 Subject: More on DOE plans wrt the OSTP Memo/Mandate Message-ID: I still do not think this is the correct place for this discussion, but I wanted to point out that there is more information on the DOE plans here: http://www.osti.gov/home/newsletter/issue-6-october-november-2013 ------ Christina K. Pikas Librarian The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Baltimore: 443.778.4812 D.C.: 240.228.4812 Christina.Pikas at jhuapl.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dwojick at CRAIGELLACHIE.US Tue Oct 29 13:27:33 2013 From: dwojick at CRAIGELLACHIE.US (David Wojick) Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 13:27:33 -0400 Subject: More on DOE plans wrt the OSTP Memo/Mandate In-Reply-To: <0BBD8C9342CBA343AE2C91D32990988C47BD221ACF@aplesstripe.dom 1.jhuapl.edu> Message-ID: Good stuff. The DOE plan has gone to OSTP for approval. The DOE/OSTI plan centers on PAGES, which hopes to use CHORUS. See my article on this at http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2013/07/18/meet-pages-does-prototype-public-access-system/. So far OSTP has not approved the DOE plan, nor any other agency plan. We are all waiting to see what OSTP decides to do. David Wojick At 12:16 PM 10/29/2013, you wrote: >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >I still do not think this is the correct place for this discussion, but I >wanted to point out that there is more information on the DOE plans here: >http://www.osti.gov/home/newsletter/issue-6-october-november-2013 > >------ >Christina K. Pikas >Librarian >The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory >Baltimore: 443.778.4812 >D.C.: 240.228.4812 >Christina.Pikas at jhuapl.edu > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Wed Oct 23 17:36:02 2013 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 17:36:02 -0400 Subject: OA In-Reply-To: <6.2.0.14.2.20131023145735.04297038@pop.craigellachie.us> Message-ID: On 2013-10-23, at 3:06 PM, David Wojick wrote: > Oh I see, Stevan. The subscription journals go out of business, just as I thought. I was afraid I had missed something in the analysis. Glad we agree. > > To return to the original point, at this time the US Government has no interest in driving the subscription publishers out of business. Post-Green Fair Gold is not Out-of-Business, it's just Fair Business. (except to a publisher lobbyist) > > At 02:43 PM 10/23/2013, you wrote: >> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 2:26 PM, David Wojick wrote: >> >> As I understand it your position is that all published articles should be immediately available for free. My question is why then anyone would subscribe to a journal? I am sure you have an answer but I have no idea what it is, as your proposal seems to defy the basic laws of economics. Immediate deposit seems to be self defeating. What have I missed? >> >> >> Here's what you have missed: >> >> Harnad, Stevan (2007) The Green Road to Open Access: A Leveraged Transition. In, Anna, Gacs (ed.) The Culture of Periodicals from the Perspective of the Electronic Age. , L'Harmattan, 99-105. >> >> SUMMARY: What the research community needs, urgently, is free online access (Open Access, OA) to its own peer-reviewed research output. Researchers can provide that in two ways: by publishing their articles in OA journals (Gold OA) or by continuing to publish in non-OA journals and self-archiving their final peer-reviewed drafts in their own OA Institutional Repositories (Green OA). OA self-archiving, once it is mandated by research institutions and funders, can reliably generate 100% Green OA. Gold OA requires journals to convert to OA publishing (which is not in the hands of the research community) and it also requires the funds to cover the Gold OA publication costs. With 100% Green OA, the research community's access and impact problems are already solved. If and when 100% Green OA should cause significant cancellation pressure (no one knows whether or when that will happen, because OA Green grows anarchically, article by article, not journal by journal) then the cancellation pressure will cause cost-cutting, downsizing and eventually a leveraged transition to OA (Gold) publishing on the part of journals. As subscription revenues shrink, institutional windfall savings from cancellations grow. If and when journal subscriptions become unsustainable, per-article publishing costs will be low enough, and institutional savings will be high enough to cover them, because publishing will have downsized to just peer-review service provision alone, offloading text-generation onto authors and access-provision and archiving onto the global network of OA Institutional Repositories. Green OA will have leveraged a transition to Gold OA. >> >> Harnad, Stevan (2010) No-Fault Peer Review Charges: The Price of Selectivity Need Not Be Access Denied or Delayed. D-Lib Magazine, 16, (7/8) >> >> SUMMARY: Plans by universities and research funders to pay the costs of Open Access Publishing ("Gold OA") are premature. Funds are short; 80% of journals (including virtually all the top journals) are still subscription-based, tying up the potential funds to pay for Gold OA; the asking price for Gold OA is still high; and there is concern that paying to publish may inflate acceptance rates and lower quality standards. What is needed now is for universities and funders to mandate OA self-archiving (of authors' final peer-reviewed drafts, immediately upon acceptance for publication) ("Green OA"). That will provide immediate OA; and if and when universal Green OA should go on to make subscriptions unsustainable (because users are satisfied with just the Green OA versions) that will in turn induce journals to cut costs (print edition, online edition, access-provision, archiving), downsize to just providing the service of peer review, and convert to the Gold OA cost-recovery model; meanwhile, the subscription cancellations will have released the funds to pay these residual service costs. The natural way to charge for the service of peer review then will be on a "no-fault basis," with the author's institution or funder paying for each round of refereeing, regardless of outcome (acceptance, revision/re-refereeing, or rejection). This will minimize cost while protecting against inflated acceptance rates and decline in quality standards. >> >> >> At 01:50 PM 10/23/2013, you wrote: >>> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >>> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 1:26 PM, David Wojick wrote: >>> >>> The USA has the lead here, as far as major funder mandates are concerned, and they have opted for a 12 month publisher embargo form of green OA. I have several articles on this at >>> http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/author/dwojick/ >>> Peter does not even discuss what is actually happening on the policy front. >>> >>> >>> On leads vs. lags and analysis vs argument, see: >>> >>> Revealing Dialogue on "CHORUS" with David Wojick, OSTI Consultant >>> >>> >>> The exchange is preceded by the following note (by me): >>> >>> Note: David Wojick works part time as the Senior Consultant for Innovation at OSTI, the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, in the Office of Science of the US Department of Energy. He has a PhD in logic and philosophy of science, an MA in mathematical logic, and a BS in civil engineering. In the exchanges below, he sounds [to me] very much like a publishing interest lobbyist, but judge for yourself. He also turns out to have a rather curious [and to me surprising] history in environmental matters? >>> >>> >>> The topic continued (and continues) to be discussed on the Society for Scholarly Publishing's blog, "The Scholarly Kitchen," where DW is a frequent contributor. >>> >>> DW: "Peter Suber is a leader of the OA movement. His article is an argument, not an analysis. He seems to be oblivious to what is actually going on?. Happy OA week." >>> >>> And a Happy OA week to DW too... >>> >>> Stevan Harnad >>> >>> At 12:50 PM 10/23/2013, you wrote: >>>> >>>> Dear David, >>>> Sorry, could you tell us why you have the opinion that the author of the Guardian piece is oblivious to what is going on? What, in you eyes, is the main thing he seems not aware of? >>>> Thank you, >>>> Jeroen Bosman >>>> ----------------------------------------------- >>>> Jeroen Bosman, subject librarian Geography&Geoscience >>>> Utrecht University Library >>>> email: j.bosman at uu.nl >>>> twitter:@geolibrarianUBU / @jeroenbosman >>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [ mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of David Wojick >>>> Sent: woensdag 23 oktober 2013 18:24 >>>> To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU >>>> Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] OA >>>> Peter Suber is a leader of the OA movement. His article is an argument, not an analysis. He seems to be oblivious to what is actually going on. >>>> Happy OA week. >>>> David Wojick >>>> At 02:20 PM 10/22/2013, you wrote: >>>> >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >>>> > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >>>> > >>>> >I post this without comment. >>>> > >>>> > http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2013/oct/21/op >>>> >en-access-myths-peter-suber-harvard >>>> > >>>> >But I would be interested to hear listmembers responses/reactions >>>> > >>>> >BW >>>> > >>>> >Quentin Burrell -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Note that since impact tends to be a diffusion process we do not try to track all the paths. Hence the idea of a marker. David At 07:28 AM 10/30/2013, you wrote: >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > >Classification: UNCLASSIFIED >Caveats: NONE > >I'm trying to demonstrate the complexity of impact on a few articles >published >OA, and there are a few ways I plan to track impact. But I would appreciate >advice on what I'm missing and how to capture it. > >We'll look at Mendeley, altmetricit, web analytics, related tweets/impact. >Additionally, I thought a blog post through an academic library that offers >doctoral degrees in that subject might draw attention and allow us to cross >promote our jobs. > >What are the other thousands of things we're missing in the impact? > >Nancy > > > >Classification: UNCLASSIFIED >Caveats: NONE > From katy at INDIANA.EDU Wed Oct 30 09:00:51 2013 From: katy at INDIANA.EDU (Katy Borner) Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 09:00:51 -0400 Subject: Senior System Architect, Project Manager Staff Position available at CNS, IU In-Reply-To: <521F5278.2060506@indiana.edu> Message-ID: Dear all, please share the below with interested candidates. Thank you, k ----------------------------- 9526 - Senior System Architect, Project Manager *Job Summary:* Manages a team of programmers in the specification, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and documentation of diverse industry-strength Cyberinfrastructures and tools that are used by 100,000s of users around the globe. Examples include international researcher networking sites such as VIVO, CIShell powered tools such as Sci2, and online interactive map applications that broadcast developments in science and technology to a large, general audience. Directs the software development process at the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center (CNS), including gathering requirements, designing, sprint planning, and developing functionality to best serve diverse stakeholders. Communicates with stakeholders and other external members of the scientific community to determine the direction of tool and online web portal development, and participates in outreach to the greater scientific community. Directs the work of junior staff, including hiring, and training of new developers, and oversees workshops and the creation of educational material for training new users and external developers. Participates in the development and submission of new funding proposals. REQUIRED: Bachelor's degree in computer science, information science, or related discipline, five years of design and programming experience including Java, building secure Web applications, and SQL, experience in managing software development using Agile Methodology such as SCRUM, Kanban, or Extreme Programming, and two year experience in Git or Subversion (SVN). Ability to interact and communicate effectively with a wide variety of people; and solid knowledge of object-oriented, MVC, and Design Pattern. Preferred: Relevant Master's Degree; experience with continuous integration tools such as Jenkins, Hubson, and JUnit Test; experience in planning and managing multi-projects end-to-end development; experience with open source project development; knowledge of Eclipse, Eclipse RCP, Equinox, and OSGi; familiarity with Python, HTML5, SVG, Tomcat, Grails, and Hibernate; experience creating data visualizations programmatically. Other: The Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science (CNS) Center (http://cns.iu.edu) at Indiana University, Bloomington employs a full-time development team. We use a Kanban-based development process, and are open to experiments and improvements. Some projects are collaborative, others are more independent. Flexibility in scheduling can be accommodated, including later work hours or 4 day work weeks (at ten hours a day). 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William Gunn | Head of Academic Outreach, Mendeley | +1 646 755 9862 http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/william-gunn On Oct 30, 2013 4:29 AM, "Faget, Nancy G CIV (US)" < nancy.g.faget.civ at mail.mil> wrote: > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > Classification: UNCLASSIFIED > Caveats: NONE > > I'm trying to demonstrate the complexity of impact on a few articles > published > OA, and there are a few ways I plan to track impact. But I would > appreciate > advice on what I'm missing and how to capture it. > > We'll look at Mendeley, altmetricit, web analytics, related tweets/impact. > Additionally, I thought a blog post through an academic library that offers > doctoral degrees in that subject might draw attention and allow us to cross > promote our jobs. > > What are the other thousands of things we're missing in the impact? > > Nancy > > > > Classification: UNCLASSIFIED > Caveats: NONE > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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