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Isidro F. Aguillo isidro.aguillo at CCHS.CSIC.ES
Wed Jul 9 06:47:36 EDT 2014


I referred to the "status (role) of a researcher in a highly cited paper"

On 09/07/2014 12:42, Bornmann, Lutz wrote:
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> The relevant information is the affiliation given on the paper 
> (independent of the status of a researcher in an institution).
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> Soorry, that means you think there are "guests" in the list?
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> On 09/07/2014 11:07, Bornmann, Lutz wrote:
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>     I think TR uses full counting. Lutz
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>     I checked the list a few days ago and I realized that probably
>     co-authored highly cited papers are being credited equally to all
>     of the authors. I suppose that Thomson Reuters is not using
>     fractional counting or not identifying leaders ??
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>     On 09/07/2014 10:36, Bornmann, Lutz wrote:
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>         Thank you for this hint, Isidro! We will change this in the
>         paper. Lutz
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>         Aguillo
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>         Dear colleagues,
>
>         The list analyzed by this paper is very important as it is one
>         of the key variables used in ARWU, the Shanghai Ranking. The
>         authors point out to problems in the "secondary affiliations"
>         of some of these HCR, but dismiss it as according to the
>         preprint ARWU is  considering only primary affiliations. But
>         after checking the published methodology in the ARWU website:
>
>         http://www.shanghairanking.com/ARWU-Methodology-2013.html
>
>         the following paragraph appears:
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>         "The number of Highly Cited Researchers in 21 subject
>         categories. These individuals are the most cited within each
>         category. If a Highly Cited Researcher has two or more
>         affiliations, he/she was asked to estimate his/her weights (or
>         number of weeks) for each affiliation. More than 2/3 of those
>         multi-affiliated Highly Cited Researchers provided such
>         estimations and their affiliations receive the weights
>         accordingly. For those who did not answer, their first
>         affiliation is given a weight of 84% (average weight of the
>         first affiliations for those who replied) and the rest
>         affiliations share the remaining 16% equally".
>
>
>         On 09/07/2014 9:21, Bornmann, Lutz wrote:
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>
>               Which of the world's institutions employ the most highly
>               cited researchers? An evaluation of the data from
>               highlycited.com
>
>             Lutz Bornmann
>             <http://arxiv.org/find/cs/1/au:+Bornmann_L/0/1/0/all/0/1>,
>             Johann Bauer
>             <http://arxiv.org/find/cs/1/au:+Bauer_J/0/1/0/all/0/1>
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>             A few weeks ago, Thomson Reuters published a list of the
>             highly cited researchers worldwide (highlycited.com).
>             Since the data is freely available for downloading and
>             includes the names of the researchers' institutions, we
>             produced a ranking of the institutions on the basis of the
>             number of highly cited researchers per institution.
>
>             Available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.2037
>             <http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.2037>
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>         Isidro F. Aguillo, HonDr.
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>         The Cybermetrics Lab, IPP-CSIC
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Isidro F. Aguillo, HonDr.
The Cybermetrics Lab, IPP-CSIC
Grupo Scimago
Madrid. SPAIN

isidro.aguillo at csic.es
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