From isidro.aguillo at cchs.csic.es Wed Mar 1 10:59:22 2017 From: isidro.aguillo at cchs.csic.es (Isidro F. Aguillo) Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 16:59:22 +0100 Subject: [Sigmetrics] Proposal for a Google Scholar Workshop during 2017 ISSI Conference Message-ID: Dear colleagues, We will like to contact bibliometricians working with Google Scholar in order to organize a Workshops or Round Table about this database and related products with metrics purposes during the next 16th International Conference on Scientometrics & Informetrics (ISSI2017), which will be held in Wuhan, P. R. China during 16?20 October 2017 (http://www.issi2017.org/). This will be a second meeting about GS after the one celebrated during the Istanbul previous ISSI conference. Sorry, we have no funds, so it is only open to speakers already thinking to attend the Conference by their own means. Please, contact me directly to my email address if you are interested in making a proposal. Thanks in advance, -- ************************************************************** Isidro F. Aguillo Dr. Honoris Causa Universitas Indonesia Dr. Honoris Causa National Research Nuclear University Moscow Editor Rankings Web Cybermetrics Lab - Scimago Group, IPP-CSIC Madrid. SPAIN isidro.aguillo at csic.es ORCID 0000-0001-8927-4873 ResearcherID: A-7280-2008 Scholar Citations SaCSbeoAAAAJ Twitter @isidroaguillo Rankings webometrics.info *************************************************************** --- El software de antivirus Avast ha analizado este correo electr?nico en busca de virus. https://www.avast.com/antivirus From j.adams at digital-science.com Thu Mar 2 07:46:01 2017 From: j.adams at digital-science.com (Jonathan Adams) Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 12:46:01 +0000 Subject: [Sigmetrics] Digital Research Report on GRID: locating institutions in analysing global research Message-ID: Dear Colleagues In our new report we explore the question of ?location? and, in particular, how we can consistently identify the organisations that host and facilitate the research process. https://figshare.com/articles/Digital_Research_Report_ Discovery_and_Analysis_of_Global_Research_Trends_Using_GRID/4714249 "Location" is a familiar analytical problem. Using a corpus of sample research articles from PLOS ONE, we demonstrate how much attribution to research organisations varies and continues to spawn new variants in author affiliations, how this kind of data can be aligned with a reference dataset (GRID), and the potential of analyses resulting from the data integration. GRID is a manually curated catalogue of research organisations with persistent identifiers to support unambiguous attribution even when names, locations and organisational structures change over time. A well-structured set of policies aim to ensure consistency across a wide range of organisation types. GRID provides automatic disambiguation algorithms based on a combination of geographic entity recognition and a large database of manually curated mappings. Interfaces are provided to process data that is structured (for example tabular data labelled by name, city, and country) and unstructured (such as author affiliations published in journal articles). 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URL: From aasnafi at gmail.com Fri Mar 3 10:48:19 2017 From: aasnafi at gmail.com (Amir Reza Asnafi) Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2017 19:18:19 +0330 Subject: [Sigmetrics] =?utf-8?q?There=E2=80=99s_a_New_Ranking_System_for_U?= =?utf-8?q?niversities_in_Muslim_Countries?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi You can see in this link about ISC, Islamic Science Citation in Iran. It is about Islamic countries. http://isc.gov.ir/ Overall Stages toward Development of the Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC) Parallel with the policies of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology and Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution, the Islamic World Science citation Center (ISC) instantly initiated programs to perform its functional activities. Ever since, ISC has been developing during several stages: 1.Analyzing accredited Persian journals in ISC multiple systems and products since 1999. 2.Input and processing of accredited Arabic journals of the Islamic countries in various ISC system products since 2005. 3.Processing and analyzing accredited English scientific journals in Iran and other Islamic countries and presentation of the results to the scientific communities since 2005. 4.In the final stage, ISC is planning to deal with Turkish, Indonesian, Malaysian, French, and other scientific languages. Preliminary activities have been done and programs will be gradually completed along with the development of ISC organization. ISC surveyed the distribution of scientific journals in the Muslim world and selected, as the first step, 1352 accredited journals for indexing based on Citation Index Regulations for Accredited Publications. Timeline of the Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC) The most important administrative and practical efforts on the way of establishment of the Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC) are: 1.Recommendation of the Supreme Leader regarding the establishment of a citation system for Iran and the Islamic World in 2004. 2.Pilot program of Persian Journal Citation Reports (PJCR) in the Regional Information Center for Science and Technology in 2000. 3.Inaugurating the pilot program by the former vice- minister for Research Affairs in the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, in June 2006. 4.ISC first national conference in Asr-e- Enghelab Research Complex, September 2006, attended by Dr. Zahedi, the respectable minister, Dr. Kabganian, vice-minister, editors of research journals and members of Journal Commission of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. 5.ISC workshop in Tehran 2006, during the Research and Technology Week for journal editors and vice chancellors for research affairs in the universities and research centers. 6.ISC approval in the 9th public meeting of the Ministers of Education of the Islamic countries in Rabat, Morocco, 2007. 7.Establishment of Iran Science Citation Index in 2007. 8.Providing the Arabic and English research journals of the Islamic countries to ISC in March 2004. 9.Presenting ISC top research journals in the Research and Technology Week in 2006 up to now. 10.Establishment of Iran Essential Science Indicators (IESI) in 2008. 11.Approval of the policies of the Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC) by the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution on May 2008. 12.Establishment of the Persian Highly-cited Proceedings Database (PHPD) on June 2008. 13.Establishment of the Persian Citation Alert (PCA) on July 2008. 14.Establishment of the ISC Electronic Journal Submission System in Persian, English and Arabic on November 2008. 15.ISC approval in the 4th Meeting of the Ministers of Higher Education of the Islamic Countries in Baku, Azerbaijan, in Oct. 2008 attended by the Minister of Science, Research and Technology, I. R. of Iran, His Excellency Dr. Mohammad Mehdi Zahedi and Dr. Jafar Mehrad, president of ISC. 16.Implementation of the system of full-text articles of Persian, Arabic and English journals of the Islamic World in 2008. 17.Implementation of a Citation Report System for citations and H-index in Dec. 2008. 18.ISC seminar for Deputy Ministers and Directors of Education and Research in the Ministries of Higher Education of the Islamic Countries in Tehran, Iran, Dec.21-22, 2008. 19.Publication of the first volume of Iran's book of Science based on ISC in Nov. 2008. 20.Signing ISC and SCOPUS Memorandum of Understanding in March 2008 by Dr. Jafar Mehrad, president of ISC and Mr. Niels Weertman, director of Scopus, Performance and Planning and Collaboration. 21.Approval of the Regulations of the accredited scientific journals' Citation Index in the Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC) in March 2008. 22.First meeting of ISC Executive Committee in Shiraz in April 2009. 23.Approval of 153 Persian scientific journals with Impact Factor (IF) in ISC Steering Committee in March 2008. 24.Approval of 13 English scientific journals with IF in April 2009. 25.ISC seminar in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in July 6-7, 2009. 26.Approval of 310 Persian, Arabic and English scientific journals with IF in Jan. 2010. 27.Establishment of ISC Journal Performance Indicators Database in 2009. 28.Publication of second volume of Iran's Book of Science in ISC in 2009. 29.Implementation of XML System of ISC Electronic Journal Submission in 2009. 30.Establishment of ISC Electronic Proceedings Submission System in 2009. 31.Approval of 406 Persian, 69 Arabic and 49 English and French journals by ISC Steering Committee, in July 14, 2010. 32.ISC seminar for Islamic countries in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance during Tehran Press Exhibition in 2010. 33.ISESCO first invitation of Dr. Mehrad, president of the Islamic World Science Citation Center, to the 5th Meeting of the Ministers of Higher Education and Scientific Research of the Islamic countries Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on November, 2010. 34.Assignment of the ranking of universities and research centers to ISC by the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology in 2010. 35.Signing an agreement between ISC and the Iranian Science and Technology Vice President for reviewing science and technology, providing cogent statistics on scientific and technological activities in the Islamic Republic of Iran, identifying nation's main axes of scientific production and regular investigation of the status of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the region and the world in 2010. 36.Developing the Atlas of Scientific Productions of Iran?s scientists and researchers based on agreement signed between ISC president, Dr. MEhrad and deputy minister in research affairs, MSRT, Dr. Mahdinejad Nouri. On 3/3/17, Saeed Ul Hassan wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > I hope you would like this new project published by my lab today! > > ITU Quality Research Rankings (ITU-QRR) is intended to provide objective > data and analytics of more than 450 universities and institutes of the > Muslim World to benchmark research performance across 250 plus subject > areas for the purpose of strengthening the quality and impact of research. > > > The system can be accessed at the following URL: http://rankings.itu.edu.pk > > > http://www.technologyreview.pk/theres-new-ranking-system-universities-muslim-countries/ > > > Best Regards, > Saeed > -- Assistant Professor. Information Science & Knowledge Department. Education and Psychology School. Shahid Beheshti University. Velenjak. Tehran. I.R.Iran Webpage Weblog Scholar Google Website Linkedin Cellphone:+989173156523 Tel: +982129905315 From gopal at annauniv.edu Tue Mar 7 02:06:42 2017 From: gopal at annauniv.edu (gopal at annauniv.edu) Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 12:36:42 +0530 (IST) Subject: [Sigmetrics] Tribute to Eugene Garfield - 75th and 85th Birthday and India Message-ID: <52084.10.5.5.87.1488870402.squirrel@mail.annauniv.edu> Dear All, Attached please find a couple of tributes from India to Eugene Garfield on his 75th and 85th Birthday. 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URL: From loet at leydesdorff.net Thu Mar 9 07:32:46 2017 From: loet at leydesdorff.net (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 13:32:46 +0100 Subject: [Sigmetrics] Tribute to Eugene Garfield - 75th and 85th Birthday and India In-Reply-To: <52084.10.5.5.87.1488870402.squirrel@mail.annauniv.edu> References: <52084.10.5.5.87.1488870402.squirrel@mail.annauniv.edu> Message-ID: <006101d298d1$421f9ac0$c65ed040$@leydesdorff.net> http://www.leydesdorff.net/garfield/animation/ Best, Loet Attached please find a couple of tributes from India to Eugene Garfield on his 75th and 85th Birthday. Gopal T V 0 9840121302 https://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/profile/57545 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dr. T V Gopal Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering College of Engineering Anna University Chennai - 600 025, INDIA Ph : (Off) 22351723 Extn. 3340 (Res) 24454753 Home Page : http://www.annauniv.edu/staff/gopal +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From gopal at annauniv.edu Thu Mar 9 07:34:21 2017 From: gopal at annauniv.edu (gopal at annauniv.edu) Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 18:04:21 +0530 (IST) Subject: [Sigmetrics] Tribute to Eugene Garfield - 75th and 85th Birthday and India In-Reply-To: <006101d298d1$421f9ac0$c65ed040$@leydesdorff.net> References: <52084.10.5.5.87.1488870402.squirrel@mail.annauniv.edu> <006101d298d1$421f9ac0$c65ed040$@leydesdorff.net> Message-ID: <53066.10.5.5.87.1489062861.squirrel@mail.annauniv.edu> TKS. Please visit: https://www.webofstories.com/play/eugene.garfield/1 I hope the authenticity of the videos [82] is established ASAP. Gopal T V 0 9840121302 https://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/profile/57545 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dr. T V Gopal Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering College of Engineering Anna University Chennai - 600 025, INDIA Ph : (Off) 22351723 Extn. 3340 (Res) 24454753 Home Page : http://www.annauniv.edu/staff/gopal +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > http://www.leydesdorff.net/garfield/animation/ > > Best, Loet > > > Attached please find a couple of tributes from India to Eugene Garfield on > his 75th and 85th Birthday. > > Gopal T V > 0 9840121302 > https://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/profile/57545 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Dr. T V Gopal > Professor > Department of Computer Science and Engineering College of Engineering Anna > University Chennai - 600 025, INDIA Ph : (Off) 22351723 Extn. 3340 > (Res) 24454753 > Home Page : http://www.annauniv.edu/staff/gopal > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > From pmd8 at cornell.edu Thu Mar 9 10:11:05 2017 From: pmd8 at cornell.edu (Philip Davis) Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 10:11:05 -0500 Subject: [Sigmetrics] Citation Cartel Or Editor Gone Rogue? Message-ID: <532D1F6E-C8D4-4B01-AB2B-0F8D0ECE4764@cornell.edu> Citation Cartel Or Editor Gone Rogue? March 9, 2017 How much can a single editor distort the citation record? Investigation documents rogue editor's coercion of authors to cite his journal, papers. https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2017/03/09/citation-cartel-or-editor-gone-rogue/ -Phil Davis -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From loet at leydesdorff.net Fri Mar 10 06:17:56 2017 From: loet at leydesdorff.net (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 12:17:56 +0100 Subject: [Sigmetrics] "Use of the journal impact factor for assessing individual articles need not be wrong" by Ludo Waltman and Vincent Traag Message-ID: <006701d2998f$fdaafbe0$f900f3a0$@leydesdorff.net> re: "Use of the journal impact factor for assessing individual articles need not be wrong" by Ludo Waltman and Vincent Traag at https://www.cwts.nl/blog. I agree with the authors that there are two different arguments against using the impact factor of a journal (IF) as a proxy for the quality of papers in the journal: (1) the skewness of the citation distribution, and (2) the ecological fallacy. 1. Against argument 1, the authors reason as follows: Let us assume (in scenario 2, at p. 16) that "journals are relatively homogenous in terms of the values of the articles they publish." This relatively flat distribution of the non-observable "values" is for (unknown) statistical reasons represented by the skewed distribution of citations to these articles. The latter distribution can be observed. In this scenario, a journal measure such as the journal impact factor-in other words, the mean-could be a better predictor of the "value" of an article than its individual citation rate. Unlike the reasoning of others who criticize the use of the IF for the evaluation of individual papers, the reasoning above would be free of assumptions. https://www.facebook.com/images/emoji.php/v7/feb/2/16/1f642.png:-) 2. Let me add that the ecological fallacy (Robinson, 1950) does not imply that the value of an attribute to an individual is independent of the value at the group level, but that the latter may fail as a predictor of the former. One loses control of the prediction: in some cases it works; in others not. See: Kreft, G. G., & de Leeuw, E. (1988). The see-saw effect: A multilevel problem? Quality and Quantity, 22(2), 127-137. Abstract: Studies of school effectiveness often use measures of association, such as regression weights and correlation coefficients. These statistics are used to estimate the size of the change or "effect" that would occur in one variable (for example reading ability) given a particular change in another variable (for example sex and sex ratio). In this paper we explore the limitations of regression coefficients for use in a contextual analysis, in which both individual and contextual variables are included as independent variables. In our example "individual sex" and a context variable "sex ratio of the schoolclass" are regressors, and reading ability is the dependent variable. Our conclusion is that researchers should be careful making interpretations of effects from multiple regression analysis, when dealing with aggregate data. Even in the case (as in our example) when individual and contextual variables are made orthogonal to avoid multicollinearity, interpretation of the effects of the aggregate variable is problematical. See also: . Robinson, W. D. (1950). Ecological correlations and the behavior of individuals. American Sociological Review, 15, 351-357. . Leydesdorff, L., Wouters, P., & Bornmann, L. (2016). Professional and citizen bibliometrics: complementarities and ambivalences in the development and use of indicators-a state-of-the-art report. Scientometrics, 109(3), 2129-2150. Best wishes, Loet _____ Loet Leydesdorff Professor, University of Amsterdam Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR) loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ Associate Faculty, SPRU, University of Sussex; Guest Professor Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou; Visiting Professor, ISTIC, Beijing; Visiting Fellow, Birkbeck, University of London; http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYAAAAJ&hl=en -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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It follows that getting published in a high IF journal is indicative of relatively high quality for the article. Opponents of IF argue that articles should be individually evaluated at the institutional level, but the high IF journal is better positioned to do this, because it has a large sample from many authors. David David Wojick, Ph.D. http://insidepublicaccess.com/ At 07:17 AM 3/10/2017, Loet Leydesdorff wrote: >re: "Use of the journal impact factor for assessing individual articles >need not be wrong" by Ludo Waltman and Vincent Traag at >https://www.cwts.nl/blog > > >I agree with the authors that there are two different arguments against >using the impact factor of a journal (IF) as a proxy for the quality of >papers in the journal: (1) the skewness of the citation distribution, and >(2) the ecological fallacy. > >1. Against argument 1, the authors reason as follows: Let us assume (in >scenario 2, at p. 16) that ?journals are relatively homogenous in terms of >the values of the articles they publish.? This relatively flat >distribution of the non-observable ?values? is for (unknown) statistical >reasons represented by the skewed distribution of citations to these >articles. The latter distribution can be observed. In this scenario, a >journal measure such as the journal impact factor?in other words, the >mean?could be a better predictor of the ?value? of an article than its >individual citation rate. > >Unlike the reasoning of others who criticize the use of the IF for the >evaluation of individual papers, the reasoning above would be free of >assumptions. >https://www.facebook.com/images/emoji.php/v7/feb/2/16/1f642.png >:-) > >2. Let me add that the ecological fallacy (Robinson, 1950) does not imply >that the value of an attribute to an individual is independent of the >value at the group level, but that the latter may fail as a predictor of >the former. One loses control of the prediction: in some cases it works; >in others not. > >See: Kreft, G. G., & de Leeuw, E. (1988). The see-saw effect: A multilevel >problem? Quality and Quantity, 22(2), 127-137. >Abstract: Studies of school effectiveness often use measures of >association, such as regression weights and correlation coefficients. >These statistics are used to estimate the size of the change or ?effect? >that would occur in one variable (for example reading ability) given a >particular change in another variable (for example sex and sex ratio). In >this paper we explore the limitations of regression coefficients for use >in a contextual analysis, in which both individual and contextual >variables are included as independent variables. In our example >?individual sex? and a context variable ?sex ratio of the schoolclass? are >regressors, and reading ability is the dependent variable. Our conclusion >is that researchers should be careful making interpretations of effects >from multiple regression analysis, when dealing with aggregate data. Even >in the case (as in our example) when individual and contextual variables >are made orthogonal to avoid multicollinearity, interpretation of the >effects of the aggregate variable is problematical. > >See also: > >? Robinson, W. D. (1950). Ecological correlations and the behavior >of individuals. American Sociological Review, 15, 351-357. > >? Leydesdorff, L., Wouters, P., & Bornmann, L. (2016). Professional >and citizen bibliometrics: complementarities and ambivalences in the >development and use of indicators?a state-of-the-art report. >Scientometrics, 109(3), 2129-2150. > >Best wishes, >Loet > > >Loet Leydesdorff >Professor, University of Amsterdam >Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR) >loet at leydesdorff.net ; >http://www.leydesdorff.net/ >Associate Faculty, SPRU, University of Sussex; >Guest Professor Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou; >Visiting Professor, ISTIC, Beijing; >Visiting Fellow, Birkbeck, University of London; >http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYAAAAJ&hl=en > > > >_______________________________________________ >SIGMETRICS mailing list >SIGMETRICS at mail.asis.org >http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigmetrics -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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I don?t see how this last part follows. Indeed, don?t such glamour journals use extensive desk rejection by editors not qualified to referee the paper in detail? > Only those articles judged to be of the highest quality get published. It follows that getting published in a high IF journal is indicative of relatively high quality for the article. > > Opponents of IF argue that articles should be individually evaluated at the institutional level, but the high IF journal is better positioned to do this, because it has a large sample from many authors. > > David > > David Wojick, Ph.D. > http://insidepublicaccess.com/ > > At 07:17 AM 3/10/2017, Loet Leydesdorff wrote: > >> re: "Use of the journal impact factor for assessing individual articles need not be wrong" by Ludo Waltman and Vincent Traag at https://www.cwts.nl/blog? >> >> I agree with the authors that there are two different arguments against using the impact factor of a journal (IF) as a proxy for the quality of papers in the journal: (1) the skewness of the citation distribution, and (2) the ecological fallacy. >> >> 1. Against argument 1, the authors reason as follows: Let us assume (in scenario 2, at p. 16) that ?journals are relatively homogenous in terms of the values of the articles they publish.? This relatively flat distribution of the non-observable ?values? is for (unknown) statistical reasons represented by the skewed distribution of citations to these articles. The latter distribution can be observed. In this scenario, a journal measure such as the journal impact factor?in other words, the mean?could be a better predictor of the ?value? of an article than its individual citation rate. >> >> Unlike the reasoning of others who criticize the use of the IF for the evaluation of individual papers, the reasoning above would be free of assumptions. <127d7be.png> :-) >> >> 2. Let me add that the ecological fallacy (Robinson, 1950) does not imply that the value of an attribute to an individual is independent of the value at the group level, but that the latter may fail as a predictor of the former. One loses control of the prediction: in some cases it works; in others not. >> >> See: Kreft, G. G., & de Leeuw, E. (1988). The see-saw effect: A multilevel problem? Quality and Quantity, 22(2), 127-137. >> Abstract: Studies of school effectiveness often use measures of association, such as regression weights and correlation coefficients. These statistics are used to estimate the size of the change or ?effect? that would occur in one variable (for example reading ability) given a particular change in another variable (for example sex and sex ratio). In this paper we explore the limitations of regression coefficients for use in a contextual analysis, in which both individual and contextual variables are included as independent variables. In our example ?individual sex? and a context variable ?sex ratio of the schoolclass? are regressors, and reading ability is the dependent variable. Our conclusion is that researchers should be careful making interpretations of effects from multiple regression analysis, when dealing with aggregate data. Even in the case (as in our example) when individual and contextual variables are made orthogonal to avoid multicollinearity, interpretation of the effects of the aggregate variable is problematical. >> >> See also: >> >> ? Robinson, W. D. (1950). Ecological correlations and the behavior of individuals. American Sociological Review, 15, 351-357. >> >> ? Leydesdorff, L., Wouters, P., & Bornmann, L. (2016). Professional and citizen bibliometrics: complementarities and ambivalences in the development and use of indicators?a state-of-the-art report. Scientometrics, 109(3), 2129-2150. >> >> Best wishes, >> Loet >> >> >> Loet Leydesdorff >> Professor, University of Amsterdam >> Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR) >> loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ >> Associate Faculty, SPRU, University of Sussex; >> Guest Professor Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou; Visiting Professor, ISTIC, Beijing; >> Visiting Fellow, Birkbeck, University of London; >> http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYAAAAJ&hl=en >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> SIGMETRICS mailing list >> SIGMETRICS at mail.asis.org >> http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigmetrics > _______________________________________________ > SIGMETRICS mailing list > SIGMETRICS at mail.asis.org > http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigmetrics From notsjb at lsu.edu Fri Mar 10 13:36:25 2017 From: notsjb at lsu.edu (Stephen J Bensman) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 18:36:25 +0000 Subject: [Sigmetrics] "Use of the journal impact factor for assessing individual articles need not be wrong" by Ludo Waltman and Vincent Traag In-Reply-To: <6.2.0.14.2.20170310133935.04978d18@pop.craigellachie.us> References: <006701d2998f$fdaafbe0$f900f3a0$@leydesdorff.net>, <6.2.0.14.2.20170310133935.04978d18@pop.craigellachie.us> Message-ID: IF is a good indicator of journal quality, because of the place of the review article in the structure of scientific communication. It is on this basis that Garfield made it his main indicator of journal quality. Review journals have the highest IF, and this is because of their place in the social structure of science. You have to be picked to write a review article, and you are picked because editors know you. I discuss all this in a number of my articles Garfield has posted on his Web site at the following URL: http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/bensman/bensman.html Stephen J. Bensman - Papers on Urquhart's Law and Garfield ... www.garfield.library.upenn.edu Stephen J. Bensman - Bensman SJ "Eugene Garfield, Francis Narin, and Pagerank: The theoretical bases of the Google Search Engine" Archives, Cornell University, 2014. I spent my entire career studying Eugene Garfield and why he is important. Basically I am a historian, and historians make other people famous, not themselves. You can go to my Google Scholar citations page and get further insights into these matters. I only hope that people will find that I have done him justice. He also did lay the theoretical bases of the Google search engines by showing that relationships are semantically correct and not words. Respectfully, Stephen J. Bensman, Ph.D. LSU Libraries (Retired) ________________________________ From: SIGMETRICS on behalf of David Wojick Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 11:49 AM To: SIGMetrics Subject: Re: [Sigmetrics] "Use of the journal impact factor for assessing individual articles need not be wrong" by Ludo Waltman and Vincent Traag I have a rather different conjecture as to why the IF is a useful proxy for article quality. It has to do with the tiered structure of the system of journals. Journals with high IFs tend to attract many submissions and therefore have high rejection rates. Thus there is extensive article level evaluation. Only those articles judged to be of the highest quality get published. It follows that getting published in a high IF journal is indicative of relatively high quality for the article. Opponents of IF argue that articles should be individually evaluated at the institutional level, but the high IF journal is better positioned to do this, because it has a large sample from many authors. David David Wojick, Ph.D. http://insidepublicaccess.com/ At 07:17 AM 3/10/2017, Loet Leydesdorff wrote: Inside Public Access insidepublicaccess.com Welcome to Inside Public Access, where experts and insiders track the US Public Access program. The US Government has embarked on a massive new public access program ... re: "Use of the journal impact factor for assessing individual articles need not be wrong" by Ludo Waltman and Vincent Traag at https://www.cwts.nl/blog? I agree with the authors that there are two different arguments against using the impact factor of a journal (IF) as a proxy for the quality of papers in the journal: (1) the skewness of the citation distribution, and (2) the ecological fallacy. 1. Against argument 1, the authors reason as follows: Let us assume (in scenario 2, at p. 16) that ?journals are relatively homogenous in terms of the values of the articles they publish.? This relatively flat distribution of the non-observable ?values? is for (unknown) statistical reasons represented by the skewed distribution of citations to these articles. The latter distribution can be observed. In this scenario, a journal measure such as the journal impact factor?in other words, the mean?could be a better predictor of the ?value? of an article than its individual citation rate. Unlike the reasoning of others who criticize the use of the IF for the evaluation of individual papers, the reasoning above would be free of assumptions. [https://www.facebook.com/images/emoji.php/v7/feb/2/16/1f642.png] :-) 2. Let me add that the ecological fallacy (Robinson, 1950) does not imply that the value of an attribute to an individual is independent of the value at the group level, but that the latter may fail as a predictor of the former. One loses control of the prediction: in some cases it works; in others not. See: Kreft, G. G., & de Leeuw, E. (1988). The see-saw effect: A multilevel problem? Quality and Quantity, 22(2), 127-137. Abstract: Studies of school effectiveness often use measures of association, such as regression weights and correlation coefficients. These statistics are used to estimate the size of the change or ?effect? that would occur in one variable (for example reading ability) given a particular change in another variable (for example sex and sex ratio). In this paper we explore the limitations of regression coefficients for use in a contextual analysis, in which both individual and contextual variables are included as independent variables. In our example ?individual sex? and a context variable ?sex ratio of the schoolclass? are regressors, and reading ability is the dependent variable. Our conclusion is that researchers should be careful making interpretations of effects from multiple regression analysis, when dealing with aggregate data. Even in the case (as in our example) when individual and contextual variables are made orthogonal to avoid multicollinearity, interpretation of the effects of the aggregate variable is problematical. See also: ? Robinson, W. D. (1950). Ecological correlations and the behavior of individuals. American Sociological Review, 15, 351-357. ? Leydesdorff, L., Wouters, P., & Bornmann, L. (2016). Professional and citizen bibliometrics: complementarities and ambivalences in the development and use of indicators?a state-of-the-art report. Scientometrics, 109(3), 2129-2150. Best wishes, Loet Loet Leydesdorff Professor, University of Amsterdam Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR) loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ Associate Faculty, SPRU, University of Sussex; Guest Professor Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou; Visiting Professor, ISTIC, Beijing; Visiting Fellow, Birkbeck, University of London; http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYAAAAJ&hl=en _______________________________________________ SIGMETRICS mailing list SIGMETRICS at mail.asis.org http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigmetrics -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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He is also the grandfather of the Google search engine for showing that it is relations--not words--that are semantically correct. I discuss these also matters on my Google citations page, which I have made public. If you reads these materials, I hope that you decide that I have done him justice. Respectfully, Stephen J. Bensman, Ph.D. LSU Libraries (Retired) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From notsjb at lsu.edu Fri Mar 10 14:35:47 2017 From: notsjb at lsu.edu (Stephen J Bensman) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 19:35:47 +0000 Subject: [Sigmetrics] Validity of Journal IF Message-ID: Journal IF is a valid measure mainly because of the role of the review article in the scientific information system. In general review journals have the highest IF, and it is for this reason Garfield made it his key measure. In general you have to be invited to write a review article, and you are invited because journal editors know you. I discuss all these matter in my articles Gene Garfield has posted on his Web site. I have spent my entire career analyzing why Garfield was so important. Basically I am a historian, and the role of the historian is to make other people famous--not yourself. For example, Garfield was the grandfather of the Google search engine for showing relationships--not words--are semantically correct. I also discuss these matters in papers posted on my Google Scholar citations page, which I have made public. If you read these materials, I only hope you find that I have done him justice. Respectfully, Stephen J. Bensman, Ph.D. LSU Libraries (Retired) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From loet at leydesdorff.net Sat Mar 11 01:42:56 2017 From: loet at leydesdorff.net (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2017 07:42:56 +0100 Subject: [Sigmetrics] Validity of Journal IF In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <000301d29a32$b84f9030$28eeb090$@leydesdorff.net> Dear Stephen, I learned from you that IFs were developed for fields like bio-medicine with high turn-over rates at a research front. The model was provided by Martyn, J., & Gilchrist, A. (1968). An Evaluation of British Scientific Journals. London: Aslib. Review journals have a long cited half-life time. One would not expect to be able to predict the citation of review articles within a two-year window, wouldn't one? Best, Loet From: SIGMETRICS [mailto:sigmetrics-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Stephen J Bensman Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 8:36 PM To: sigmetrics at mail.asis.org Subject: [Sigmetrics] Validity of Journal IF Journal IF is a valid measure mainly because of the role of the review article in the scientific information system. In general review journals have the highest IF, and it is for this reason Garfield made it his key measure. In general you have to be invited to write a review article, and you are invited because journal editors know you. I discuss all these matter in my articles Gene Garfield has posted on his Web site. I have spent my entire career analyzing why Garfield was so important. Basically I am a historian, and the role of the historian is to make other people famous--not yourself. For example, Garfield was the grandfather of the Google search engine for showing relationships--not words--are semantically correct. I also discuss these matters in papers posted on my Google Scholar citations page, which I have made public. If you read these materials, I only hope you find that I have done him justice. Respectfully, Stephen J. Bensman, Ph.D. LSU Libraries (Retired) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From notsjb at lsu.edu Sat Mar 11 09:35:21 2017 From: notsjb at lsu.edu (Stephen J Bensman) Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2017 14:35:21 +0000 Subject: [Sigmetrics] Validity of Journal IF In-Reply-To: <000301d29a32$b84f9030$28eeb090$@leydesdorff.net> References: , <000301d29a32$b84f9030$28eeb090$@leydesdorff.net> Message-ID: Loet, I was surprised that my contribution made it through, because my server was blocking my sendings for being a "spoofer" getting ready to hack everybody on this listserv. Shades of the DNC. I may be horrified at how many of my comments made it through because I was fighting this thing. You are right about the field of development but things are field dependent, and I do not want to get into technicalities. That is your specialty. On a general level, I always thought that the IF would a good way to judge the rank of various programs. By IF journals distribute in the usual power-law fashion with a slope/exponent of probably about 2. One could take a given program like biotech at Amsterdam and check how far out on the asymptote the journals in which it publishes are. The more of them further out and particularly at the right tip of the asymptote they are, the higher the contribution of the program to its field. This would be according to Gene's theoretical conception of the IF. I am sure that you could whip together a measurement like this in a whiffy, including comparative program measurements. Steve B. ________________________________ From: loet at leydesdorff.net on behalf of Loet Leydesdorff Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2017 12:42:56 AM To: Stephen J Bensman; sigmetrics at mail.asis.org Subject: RE: [Sigmetrics] Validity of Journal IF Dear Stephen, I learned from you that IFs were developed for fields like bio-medicine with high turn-over rates at a research front. The model was provided by Martyn, J., & Gilchrist, A. (1968). An Evaluation of British Scientific Journals. London: Aslib. Review journals have a long cited half-life time. One would not expect to be able to predict the citation of review articles within a two-year window, wouldn?t one? Best, Loet From: SIGMETRICS [mailto:sigmetrics-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Stephen J Bensman Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 8:36 PM To: sigmetrics at mail.asis.org Subject: [Sigmetrics] Validity of Journal IF Journal IF is a valid measure mainly because of the role of the review article in the scientific information system. In general review journals have the highest IF, and it is for this reason Garfield made it his key measure. In general you have to be invited to write a review article, and you are invited because journal editors know you. I discuss all these matter in my articles Gene Garfield has posted on his Web site. I have spent my entire career analyzing why Garfield was so important. Basically I am a historian, and the role of the historian is to make other people famous--not yourself. For example, Garfield was the grandfather of the Google search engine for showing relationships--not words--are semantically correct. I also discuss these matters in papers posted on my Google Scholar citations page, which I have made public. If you read these materials, I only hope you find that I have done him justice. Respectfully, Stephen J. Bensman, Ph.D. LSU Libraries (Retired) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From andrea.scharnhorst at dans.knaw.nl Tue Mar 14 03:35:07 2017 From: andrea.scharnhorst at dans.knaw.nl (Andrea Scharnhorst) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 07:35:07 +0000 Subject: [Sigmetrics] Topic extraction challenge In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4DC58277-02DE-4E6F-8B95-DE245069F772@dans.knaw.nl> Please take apologies for cross-posting Dear colleagues, You might be interested to learn that Clarivate Analytics has agreed to make available a Web of Science data set (111,616 articles in Astrophysics and Astronomy, "Astro Data Set") which allows us to invite everybody interested to participate in a topic extraction challenge so we can collectively study and learn from the systematic comparison of topic extraction approaches. For details about the challenge and how to access the data see: www.topic-challenge.info. The activity of exploring differences between topic extraction approaches originated from discussions at the annual advisory board meeting of a project on measuring the epistemic diversity of research by Frank Havemann, Michael Heinz and Jochen Gl?ser in Berlin, Germany, and is documented in a special issue "Same Data, Different Results?" of the journal Scientometrics (see list of forthcoming articles below). We would like to invite you and your colleagues to participate in the topic extraction challenge, and would appreciate your support in spreading the news. A first opportunity to discuss new topic extraction solutions and the challenge of comparing approaches will be provided this October at a special session at the 2017 ISSI conference in Wuhan, China (http://www.issi2017.org). Submission deadline for research in progress papers is April 10. You are welcome to forward this invitation to others who may have an interest in topic extraction from the Astro Data Set. Please send questions to theresa.velden at gmail.com. With kind regards, Theresa Velden (& the other "challengers": Kevin Boyack, Wolfgang Gl?nzel, Jochen Gl?ser, Frank Havemann, Andrea Scharnhorst, Bart Thijs, Nees Jan van Eck, Ludo Waltman) List of forthcoming Scientometrics articles on topic extraction from the Astro Data Set: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gl?ser J, Scharnhorst A & Gl?nzel, W (eds). Introduction: Same data ? different results? Towards a comparative approach to the identification of thematic structures in science. DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2296-z Boyack K. Investigating the Effect of Global Data on Topic Detection. DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2297-y Wang, S. & Koopman, R. Clustering articles based on semantic similarity. DOI:10.1007/s11192-017-2298-x Velden T, Yan S & Lagoze C. Mapping the Cognitive Structure of Astrophysics by Infomap Clustering of the Citation Network and Topic Affinity Analysis. DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2299-9 Van Eck, NJ & Waltman, L. Citation-Based Clustering of Publications Using CitNetExplorer and VOSviewer DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2300-7 Gl?nzel, W & Thijs B. Using Hybrid Methods and `Core Documents' for the Representation of Clusters and Topics. The Astronomy Dataset DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2301-6 Havemann F, Gl?ser J & Heinz M. Memetic Search for Overlapping Topics Based on a Local Evaluation of Link Communities DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2302-5 Koopman R, Wang S & Scharnhorst A. Contextualization of Topics: Browsing through the Universe of Bibliographic Information DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2303-4 Boyack, K. Thesaurus-Based Methods for Mapping Contents of Publication Sets DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2304-3 Koopman R & Wang S. Mutual Information Based Labelling and Comparing Clusters DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2305-2 Velden T, Boyack K, Glaser J, Koopman R, Scharnhorst A & Wang S. Comparison of Topic Extraction Approaches and Their Results DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2299-9 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2306-1 Theresa Velden, PhD IPODI/Marie Curie Fellow Zentrum f?r Technik und Gesellschaft Technische Universit?t Berlin velden at ztg.tu-berlin.de| tav6 at cornell.edu | theresa.velden at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From andreas.strotmann at gmail.com Tue Mar 14 14:04:55 2017 From: andreas.strotmann at gmail.com (Andreas Strotmann) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 19:04:55 +0100 Subject: [Sigmetrics] Topic extraction challenge In-Reply-To: <4DC58277-02DE-4E6F-8B95-DE245069F772@dans.knaw.nl> References: <4DC58277-02DE-4E6F-8B95-DE245069F772@dans.knaw.nl> Message-ID: Actually, this would be much more useful if we had the full text of these articles, too. There is a lot of research going on with respect to in-text citation/citation context analysis these days. That research would benefit greatly from such an opportunity for comparisons (as would be the efforts to improve existing citation databases, I suspect.) On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 8:35 AM, Andrea Scharnhorst < andrea.scharnhorst at dans.knaw.nl> wrote: > Please take apologies for cross-posting > > Dear colleagues, > > You might be interested to learn that Clarivate Analytics has agreed to > make available a Web of Science data set (111,616 articles in Astrophysics > and Astronomy, "Astro Data Set") which allows us to invite everybody > interested to participate in a topic extraction challenge so we can > collectively study and learn from the systematic comparison of topic > extraction approaches. For details about the challenge and how to access > the data see: www.topic-challenge.info. > > The activity of exploring differences between topic extraction approaches > originated from discussions at the annual advisory board meeting of a > project on measuring the epistemic diversity of research by Frank Havemann, > Michael Heinz and Jochen Gl?ser in Berlin, Germany, and is documented in a > special issue "Same Data, Different Results?" of the journal Scientometrics > (see list of forthcoming articles below). > > We would like to invite you and your colleagues to participate in the > topic extraction challenge, and would appreciate your support in spreading > the news. A first opportunity to discuss new topic extraction solutions and > the challenge of comparing approaches will be provided this October at a > special session at the 2017 ISSI conference in Wuhan, China ( > http://www.issi2017.org). Submission deadline for research in progress > papers is April 10. You are welcome to forward this invitation to others > who may have an interest in topic extraction from the Astro Data Set. > Please send questions to theresa.velden at gmail.com. > > With kind regards, > > Theresa Velden > (& the other "challengers": Kevin Boyack, Wolfgang Gl?nzel, Jochen Gl?ser, > Frank Havemann, Andrea Scharnhorst, Bart Thijs, Nees Jan van Eck, Ludo > Waltman) > > > > > List of forthcoming Scientometrics articles on topic extraction from the > Astro Data Set: > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ---------------------------------------------------- > > Gl?ser J, Scharnhorst A & Gl?nzel, W (eds). Introduction: Same data ? > different results? Towards a comparative approach to the identification of > thematic structures in science. DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2296-z > > Boyack K. Investigating the Effect of Global Data on Topic Detection. DOI: > 10.1007/s11192-017-2297-y > > Wang, S. & Koopman, R. Clustering articles based on semantic > similarity. DOI:10.1007/s11192-017-2298-x > > Velden T, Yan S & Lagoze C. Mapping the Cognitive Structure of > Astrophysics by Infomap Clustering of the Citation Network and Topic > Affinity Analysis. DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2299-9 > > Van Eck, NJ & Waltman, L. Citation-Based Clustering of Publications Using > CitNetExplorer and VOSviewer DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2300-7 > > Gl?nzel, W & Thijs B. Using Hybrid Methods and `Core Documents' for the > Representation of Clusters and Topics. The Astronomy Dataset DOI: > 10.1007/s11192-017-2301-6 > > Havemann F, Gl?ser J & Heinz M. Memetic Search for Overlapping Topics > Based on a Local Evaluation of Link Communities DOI: > 10.1007/s11192-017-2302-5 > > Koopman R, Wang S & Scharnhorst A. Contextualization of Topics: Browsing > through the Universe of Bibliographic Information DOI: > 10.1007/s11192-017-2303-4 > > Boyack, K. Thesaurus-Based Methods for Mapping Contents of Publication > Sets DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2304-3 > > Koopman R & Wang S. Mutual Information Based Labelling and Comparing > Clusters DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2305-2 > > Velden T, Boyack K, Glaser J, Koopman R, Scharnhorst A & Wang S. > Comparison of Topic Extraction Approaches and Their Results DOI: > 10.1007/s11192-017-2299-9 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2306-1 > > > > > Theresa Velden, PhD > IPODI/Marie Curie Fellow > Zentrum f?r Technik und Gesellschaft > Technische Universit?t Berlin > > velden at ztg.tu-berlin.de| tav6 at cornell.edu | theresa.velden at gmail.com > > > _______________________________________________ > SIGMETRICS mailing list > SIGMETRICS at mail.asis.org > http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigmetrics > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From andrea.scharnhorst at dans.knaw.nl Tue Mar 14 14:54:19 2017 From: andrea.scharnhorst at dans.knaw.nl (Andrea Scharnhorst) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 18:54:19 +0000 Subject: [Sigmetrics] Topic extraction challenge In-Reply-To: References: <4DC58277-02DE-4E6F-8B95-DE245069F772@dans.knaw.nl> Message-ID: Preprints of most of the articles can be found at http://www.topic-challenge.info/ -> publications. We work on getting the pending one of Koopman et al on-line! Good point, thanks for your interest Andrea From: Andreas Strotmann Date: Tuesday 14 March 2017 at 19:04 To: Andrea Scharnhorst Cc: "sigmetrics at mail.asis.org" Subject: Re: [Sigmetrics] Topic extraction challenge Actually, this would be much more useful if we had the full text of these articles, too. There is a lot of research going on with respect to in-text citation/citation context analysis these days. That research would benefit greatly from such an opportunity for comparisons (as would be the efforts to improve existing citation databases, I suspect.) On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 8:35 AM, Andrea Scharnhorst > wrote: Please take apologies for cross-posting Dear colleagues, You might be interested to learn that Clarivate Analytics has agreed to make available a Web of Science data set (111,616 articles in Astrophysics and Astronomy, "Astro Data Set") which allows us to invite everybody interested to participate in a topic extraction challenge so we can collectively study and learn from the systematic comparison of topic extraction approaches. For details about the challenge and how to access the data see: www.topic-challenge.info. The activity of exploring differences between topic extraction approaches originated from discussions at the annual advisory board meeting of a project on measuring the epistemic diversity of research by Frank Havemann, Michael Heinz and Jochen Gl?ser in Berlin, Germany, and is documented in a special issue "Same Data, Different Results?" of the journal Scientometrics (see list of forthcoming articles below). We would like to invite you and your colleagues to participate in the topic extraction challenge, and would appreciate your support in spreading the news. A first opportunity to discuss new topic extraction solutions and the challenge of comparing approaches will be provided this October at a special session at the 2017 ISSI conference in Wuhan, China (http://www.issi2017.org). Submission deadline for research in progress papers is April 10. You are welcome to forward this invitation to others who may have an interest in topic extraction from the Astro Data Set. Please send questions to theresa.velden at gmail.com. With kind regards, Theresa Velden (& the other "challengers": Kevin Boyack, Wolfgang Gl?nzel, Jochen Gl?ser, Frank Havemann, Andrea Scharnhorst, Bart Thijs, Nees Jan van Eck, Ludo Waltman) List of forthcoming Scientometrics articles on topic extraction from the Astro Data Set: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gl?ser J, Scharnhorst A & Gl?nzel, W (eds). Introduction: Same data ? different results? Towards a comparative approach to the identification of thematic structures in science. DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2296-z Boyack K. Investigating the Effect of Global Data on Topic Detection. DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2297-y Wang, S. & Koopman, R. Clustering articles based on semantic similarity. DOI:10.1007/s11192-017-2298-x Velden T, Yan S & Lagoze C. Mapping the Cognitive Structure of Astrophysics by Infomap Clustering of the Citation Network and Topic Affinity Analysis. DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2299-9 Van Eck, NJ & Waltman, L. Citation-Based Clustering of Publications Using CitNetExplorer and VOSviewer DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2300-7 Gl?nzel, W & Thijs B. Using Hybrid Methods and `Core Documents' for the Representation of Clusters and Topics. The Astronomy Dataset DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2301-6 Havemann F, Gl?ser J & Heinz M. Memetic Search for Overlapping Topics Based on a Local Evaluation of Link Communities DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2302-5 Koopman R, Wang S & Scharnhorst A. Contextualization of Topics: Browsing through the Universe of Bibliographic Information DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2303-4 Boyack, K. Thesaurus-Based Methods for Mapping Contents of Publication Sets DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2304-3 Koopman R & Wang S. Mutual Information Based Labelling and Comparing Clusters DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2305-2 Velden T, Boyack K, Glaser J, Koopman R, Scharnhorst A & Wang S. Comparison of Topic Extraction Approaches and Their Results DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2299-9 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2306-1 Theresa Velden, PhD IPODI/Marie Curie Fellow Zentrum f?r Technik und Gesellschaft Technische Universit?t Berlin velden at ztg.tu-berlin.de| tav6 at cornell.edu | theresa.velden at gmail.com _______________________________________________ SIGMETRICS mailing list SIGMETRICS at mail.asis.org http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigmetrics -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Dr. Andrea Scharnhorst Data Archiving and Networked Services Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Coordinator Research&Innovation http://www.dans.knaw.nl DARIAH.EU Chief Integration Officer http://www.dariah.eu http://www.narcis.nl/person/RecordID/PRS1285871/uquery/scharnhorst/id/2/Language/EN From: Andreas Strotmann Date: Tuesday 14 March 2017 at 19:04 To: Andrea Scharnhorst Cc: "sigmetrics at mail.asis.org" Subject: Re: [Sigmetrics] Topic extraction challenge Actually, this would be much more useful if we had the full text of these articles, too. There is a lot of research going on with respect to in-text citation/citation context analysis these days. That research would benefit greatly from such an opportunity for comparisons (as would be the efforts to improve existing citation databases, I suspect.) On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 8:35 AM, Andrea Scharnhorst > wrote: Please take apologies for cross-posting Dear colleagues, You might be interested to learn that Clarivate Analytics has agreed to make available a Web of Science data set (111,616 articles in Astrophysics and Astronomy, "Astro Data Set") which allows us to invite everybody interested to participate in a topic extraction challenge so we can collectively study and learn from the systematic comparison of topic extraction approaches. For details about the challenge and how to access the data see: www.topic-challenge.info. The activity of exploring differences between topic extraction approaches originated from discussions at the annual advisory board meeting of a project on measuring the epistemic diversity of research by Frank Havemann, Michael Heinz and Jochen Gl?ser in Berlin, Germany, and is documented in a special issue "Same Data, Different Results?" of the journal Scientometrics (see list of forthcoming articles below). We would like to invite you and your colleagues to participate in the topic extraction challenge, and would appreciate your support in spreading the news. A first opportunity to discuss new topic extraction solutions and the challenge of comparing approaches will be provided this October at a special session at the 2017 ISSI conference in Wuhan, China (http://www.issi2017.org). Submission deadline for research in progress papers is April 10. You are welcome to forward this invitation to others who may have an interest in topic extraction from the Astro Data Set. Please send questions to theresa.velden at gmail.com. With kind regards, Theresa Velden (& the other "challengers": Kevin Boyack, Wolfgang Gl?nzel, Jochen Gl?ser, Frank Havemann, Andrea Scharnhorst, Bart Thijs, Nees Jan van Eck, Ludo Waltman) List of forthcoming Scientometrics articles on topic extraction from the Astro Data Set: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gl?ser J, Scharnhorst A & Gl?nzel, W (eds). Introduction: Same data ? different results? Towards a comparative approach to the identification of thematic structures in science. DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2296-z Boyack K. Investigating the Effect of Global Data on Topic Detection. DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2297-y Wang, S. & Koopman, R. Clustering articles based on semantic similarity. DOI:10.1007/s11192-017-2298-x Velden T, Yan S & Lagoze C. Mapping the Cognitive Structure of Astrophysics by Infomap Clustering of the Citation Network and Topic Affinity Analysis. DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2299-9 Van Eck, NJ & Waltman, L. Citation-Based Clustering of Publications Using CitNetExplorer and VOSviewer DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2300-7 Gl?nzel, W & Thijs B. Using Hybrid Methods and `Core Documents' for the Representation of Clusters and Topics. The Astronomy Dataset DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2301-6 Havemann F, Gl?ser J & Heinz M. Memetic Search for Overlapping Topics Based on a Local Evaluation of Link Communities DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2302-5 Koopman R, Wang S & Scharnhorst A. Contextualization of Topics: Browsing through the Universe of Bibliographic Information DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2303-4 Boyack, K. Thesaurus-Based Methods for Mapping Contents of Publication Sets DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2304-3 Koopman R & Wang S. Mutual Information Based Labelling and Comparing Clusters DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2305-2 Velden T, Boyack K, Glaser J, Koopman R, Scharnhorst A & Wang S. Comparison of Topic Extraction Approaches and Their Results DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2299-9 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2306-1 Theresa Velden, PhD IPODI/Marie Curie Fellow Zentrum f?r Technik und Gesellschaft Technische Universit?t Berlin velden at ztg.tu-berlin.de| tav6 at cornell.edu | theresa.velden at gmail.com _______________________________________________ SIGMETRICS mailing list SIGMETRICS at mail.asis.org http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigmetrics -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From matthewm at andrew.cmu.edu Wed Mar 15 16:44:35 2017 From: matthewm at andrew.cmu.edu (Matthew Marsteller) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 20:44:35 +0000 Subject: [Sigmetrics] Job opportunities at Carnegie Mellon University Message-ID: <4004368B-EFA5-418F-80D4-7A62A57DCAD8@andrew.cmu.edu> Hi everyone, Carnegie Mellon University Libraries is excited to announce four new liaison librarian positions in Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science and Engineering. 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Open science refers to ongoing changes in the way research is conducted. The overarching aim is to increase transparency, collaboration, communication and participation on research projects to improve their scientific outcomes. Open science is one of three priority areas for European research, science and innovation policy. The characteristics of open science that are monitored on the website are: open access to research publications, open research data, open scholarly communication and citizen science. These characteristics and associated indicators have been validated by policymakers, researchers, funders and others involved in open science activities through focus group consultations organised through a RAND Europe study. The majority of the group representing policymakers, funders and libraries (27 participants) strongly agreed (82 per cent) that an open science monitor would be useful to them, while 71 per cent of researchers (32 participants) also strongly agreed. In the study, respondents cited the ability to keep up-to-date with progress in open science as the biggest benefit. Respondents also hoped the monitor would allow them to demonstrate that open science practices are increasing, with this potentially helping to encourage others to get involved in the process. *View the website ? * *Learn more about RAND Europe's role in the site's development ? * RAND ? is a registered trademark. We respect your privacy . To unsubscribe from future email notifications from RAND Europe, or alternatively to hear about RAND Europe's work in additional areas, please email randeurope at rand.org. 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URL: From loet at leydesdorff.net Tue Mar 21 10:59:17 2017 From: loet at leydesdorff.net (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 15:59:17 +0100 Subject: [Sigmetrics] The Measurement of Synergy in Innovation Systems; preprint version Message-ID: <00af01d2a253$b6f85900$24e90b00$@leydesdorff.net> The Measurement of Synergy in Innovation Systems: Redundancy Generation in a Triple Helix of University-Industry-Government Relations Loet Leydesdorff,*[1] Henry Etzkowitz,[2] Inga Ivanova,[3] and Martin Meyer [4] Abstract In university-industry-government relations, one not only exchanges information, but can also share meanings provided from partially overlapping perspectives. Such sharing of meanings invokes different codes of communication and generates redundancies. Redundancy can be measured as the number of options not yet realized in a system of innovations. The generation of new options is probably more important for the quality of knowledge-based innovation systems than prior achievements. Three levels of communication can be distinguished: the communication of information in networks of relations, the sharing of meaning among differently positioned agents in a multi-dimensional vector space, and codes of communication ("horizons of meaning") which "structurate" meaning processing among reflexive agents. Scientometricians have mainly studied the communication of information; new options, however, are generated and entertained discursively in the knowledge base. The Triple-Helix synergy indicator enables us to measure the generation of redundancy as feedback on historical trajectories. In a number of studies of national systems of innovation (e.g., Sweden, Germany, Spain, China), this measure was used to indicate niches (e.g., regions) in which uncertainty is reduced. Reduction of uncertainty improves the entrepreneurial climate for innovation. The quality of an innovation system can thus be quantified at different geographical scales and in terms of different sectors, such as high- and medium-tech manufacturing or knowledge-intensive services. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2937647 apologies for cross-postings _____ Loet Leydesdorff Professor, University of Amsterdam Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR) loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ Associate Faculty, SPRU, University of Sussex; Guest Professor Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou; Visiting Professor, ISTIC, Beijing; Visiting Fellow, Birkbeck, University of London; http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYAAAAJ&hl=en _____ [1] * corresponding author; University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), PO Box 15793, 1001 NG Amsterdam, The Netherlands; email: loet at leydesdorff.net; [2] International Triple Helix Institute (ITHI), 1520 Sand Hill Road, No.210, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA; h.etzko at gmail.com [3] Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge, National Research University Higher School of Economics (NRU HSE), 20 Myasnitskaya St., Moscow, 101000, Russia; and School of Economics and Management, Far Eastern Federal University, 8, Sukhanova St., Vladivostok 690990, Russia; email: inga.iva at mail.ru [4] Kent Business School, Parkwood Road, Canterbury CT2 7PE, United Kingdom; email: M.S.Meyer at kent.ac.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Philipp.Mayr-Schlegel at gesis.org Fri Mar 17 11:11:49 2017 From: Philipp.Mayr-Schlegel at gesis.org (Mayr-Schlegel, Philipp) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 15:11:49 +0000 Subject: [Sigmetrics] CFP: 2nd Joint Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing for Digital Libraries (BIRNDL 2017) @SIGIR 2017 Message-ID: == Call for Papers == You are invited to participate in the 2nd Joint Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced IR and NLP for Digital Libraries (BIRNDL), to be held as part of 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2017) in Tokyo, Japan on 11th August 2017. We are happy to announce that the past BIR and NLPIR4DL organizers are proposing this workshop at SIGIR together. In conjunction with the BIRNDL workshop, we will hold the 3rd CL-SciSumm Shared Task in Scientific Document Summarization. Reports from the shared task systems will be featured as part of a session at the workshop. === Important Dates === - Submissions deadline: May 23, 2017 - Notification: June 23, 2017 - Camera Ready Contributions: TBD - Workshop: August 11, 2017 in Tokyo, Japan === Aim of the Workshop === The BIRNDL workshop is the first step to foster a reflection on interdisciplinarity, and the benefits that the disciplines bibliometrics, IR and NLP can derive from it in a digital libraries context. The workshop is intended to stimulate IR researchers and digital library professionals to elaborate on new approaches in natural language processing, information retrieval, scientometrics, text mining and recommendation techniques that can advance the state-of-the-art in scholarly document understanding, analysis, and retrieval at scale. Researchers are in need of assistive technologies to track developments in an area, identify the approaches used to solve a research problem over time and summarize research trends. Digital libraries require semantic search, question-answering and automated recommendation and reviewing systems to manage and retrieve answers from scholarly databases. Full document text analysis can help to design semantic search, translation and summarization systems; citation and social network analyses can help digital libraries to visualize scientific trends, bibliometrics and relationships and influences of works and authors. All these approaches can be supplemented with the metadata supplied by digital libraries, inclusive of usage data, such as download counts. We invite papers and presentations that incorporate insights from IR, bibliometrics and NLP to develop new techniques to address the open problems in Big Science, such as evidence-based searching, measurement of research quality, relevance and impact, the emergence and decline of research problems, identification of scholarly relationships and influences and applied problems such as language translation, question-answering and summarization. Finding relevant scholarly literature is key point of the workshop and sets the agenda for tools and approaches to be discussed and evaluated at BIRNDL. At the workshop, we would also like to address the need for established, standardized baselines, evaluation metrics and test collections. See the proceedings of the first BIRNDL workshop at JCDL 2016 and a recent report in SIGIR Forum . This workshop will be relevant to scholars in computer and information science, specialized in IR, bibliometrics and NLP. The Shared Task is expected to be of interest to a broad community including those working in CL and NLP, especially in the sub-disciplines of text summarization, discourse structure in scholarly discourse, paraphrase, textual entailment and text simplification. The workshop will also be of importance for all stakeholders in the publication pipeline: implementers, publishers and policymakers. Formal citation metrics are increasingly a factor in decision-making by universities and funding bodies worldwide, making the need for research in applying these metrics more pressing. Today's publishers continue to provide new ways to support their consumers in disseminating and retrieving the right published works to their audience. Even when only considering the scholarly sites within Computer Science, we find that the field is well-represented - ACM Portal, IEEE Xplore, Google Scholar, PSU's CiteSeerX, MSR's Academic Search, Elsevier?s Mendeley, Tsinghua's ArnetMiner, Trier's DBLP, Hiroshima's PRESRI; with this workshop we hope to bring a number of these contributors together. === Workshop Topics === We invite stimulating as well as unpublished submissions on topics including - but not limited to - full-text analysis, multimedia and multilingual analysis and alignment as well as the application of citation-based NLP or information retrieval and information seeking techniques in digital libraries. Specific examples of fields of interests include (but are not limited to): - Infrastructure for scientific mining and IR - Semantic and Network-based indexing, navigation, searching and browsing in structured data - Discourse structure identification and argument mining from scientific papers - Summarisation and question-answering for scholarly DLs - Bibliometrics, citation analysis and network analysis for IR - Task based user modelling, interaction, and personalisation - Recommendation for scholarly papers, reviewers, citations and publication venues - Measurement and evaluation of quality and impact - Metadata and controlled vocabularies for resource description and discovery; - Automatic metadata discovery, such as language identification - Disambiguation issues in scholarly DLs using NLP or IR techniques; Data cleaning and data quality For the paper sessions, we especially invite descriptions of running projects and ongoing work as well as contributions from industry. Papers that investigate multiple themes directly are especially welcome. === Submission Details === All submissions must be written in English following Springer LNCS author guidelines (max. 6 pages for short and 12 pages for full papers, Springer LNCS: ; exclusive of unlimited pages for references) and should be submitted as PDF files to EasyChair. All submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Please be aware of the fact that at least one author per paper needs to register for the workshop and attend the workshop to present the work. In case of no-show the paper (even if accepted) will be deleted from the proceedings and from the program. EasyChair: Workshop proceedings will be deposited online in the CEUR workshop proceedings publication service (ISSN 1613-0073) - This way the proceedings will be permanently available and citable (digital persistent identifiers and long term preservation). Please retweet this cfp === PC Chairs === - Philipp Mayr, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany - Kokil Jaidka, University of Pennsylvania, USA - Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore The main organizers will be supported by our previous co-organizers: - Guillaume Cabanac, University of Toulouse, France - Ingo Frommholz, University of Bedfordshire in Luton, UK - Min-Yen Kan, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore - Dietmar Wolfram, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA === Program Committee === The following committee members have stated their support to review submissions to the workshop. Akiko Aizawa, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Iana Atanassova, Universit? de Franche-Comt?, France Joeran Beel, University of Konstanz, Germany Patrice Bellot, Aix-Marseille University, France Marc Bertin, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al, Canada Colin Batchelor, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK Cornelia Caragea, University of North Texas, USA Zeljko Carevic, GESIS, Germany Jason S Chang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan John Conroy, IDA Center for Computing Sciences Ed A. Fox, Virginia Tech, USA Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany C. Lee Giles, Penn State University, USA Bela Gipp, University of Konstanz, Germany Nazli Goharian, Georgetown University, USA Pawan Goyal, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur Wolfgang Gl?nzel, KU Leuven, Belgium Gilles Hubert, University of Toulouse, France Rahul Jha, Microsoft, USA Noriko Kando, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Dain Kaplan, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Roman Kern, Graz University of Technology, Austria Anna Korhonen, University of Cambridge, UK John Lawrence, University of Dundee, UK Chin-Yew Lin, Microsoft Research Asia Kathy McKeown, Columbia University, USA Prasenjit Mitra, Penn State University, USA / Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar Marie-Francine Moens, KU Leuven, Belgium Peter Mutschke, GESIS, Germany Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar Doug Oard, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA Manabu Okumura, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Arzucan Ozgur, Bogazici University, Turkey Cecile Paris, The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia Soujanya Poria, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Ameni Sahraoui, GESIS, Germany Philipp Schaer, TH Cologne, Germany Rajiv Ratn Shah, Singapore Management University, Singapore Vivek Singh, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), India Kazunari Sugiyama, National University of Singapore, Singapore Pradeep Teregowda, IBM, Watson Discovery Services, USA Mike Thelwall, University of Wolverhampton, UK Bart Thijs, KU Leuven, Belgium Lucy Vanderwende, Microsoft Research Andre Vellino, University of Toronto Anita de Waard, Elsevier Labs Alex Wade, Microsoft Research Stephen Wan, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia Yifang Yin, National University of Singapore, Singapore ? 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One of the application areas of a particular interest is scholarly communication & Open Science. We are currently offering fully-funded PhD studentships commencing in October 2017. Applications are invited from UK, EU and international students for full-time, 3-year study. Deadlines for applications (with a fully developed research proposal): 10th April, 2017 Available topics: - Large-scale information extraction from unstructured textual resources - https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=76758&LID=3843 - Discovering facts to support or refute claims - https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=76757&LID=3843 - Identifying and predicting research & innovation by mining text - https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=76759&LID=3843 - Reproducibility of text and data mining workflows - https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=84691&LID=3843 - Large-scale real-time aggregation and synchronization of web & knowledge resources - https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=84692&LID=3843 - Towards Effective Open Science Workflows - https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=84744&LID=3843 - Investigating the impact of Open Science practices on scientific research - https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=84745&LID=3843 -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). The Open University is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From p.f.wouters at cwts.leidenuniv.nl Thu Mar 23 05:07:41 2017 From: p.f.wouters at cwts.leidenuniv.nl (Wouters, P.F.) Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 09:07:41 +0000 Subject: [Sigmetrics] Obituaries Eugene Garfield Message-ID: <3F5D1454-6440-459C-ABE3-ABF275A6969A@cwts.leidenuniv.nl> Dear colleagues, We also paid tribute to Eugene Garfield in two obituaries. The first was published a few days after Gene passed away with personal reflections by Ton van Raan and myself: http://bit.ly/2nUGmH0 The second was published in Nature today: http://em.rdcu.be/wf/ with regards, Paul Wouters Professor of Scientometrics Director Centre for Science and Technology Studies Leiden University Visiting address: Willem Einthoven Building Wassenaarseweg 62A 2333 AL Leiden Mail address: P.O. Box 905 2300 AX Leiden T: +31 71 5273909 (secr.) F: +31 71 5273911 E: p.f.wouters at cwts.leidenuniv.nl NEW: CWTS blog: http://www.cwts.nl/blog# CWTS home page: www.cwts.nl Research Dreams: www.researchdreams.nl -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From p.f.wouters at cwts.leidenuniv.nl Thu Mar 23 05:50:52 2017 From: p.f.wouters at cwts.leidenuniv.nl (Wouters, P.F.) Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 09:50:52 +0000 Subject: [Sigmetrics] Obituaries Eugene Garfield, now with correct links Message-ID: <45DAD4B1-1106-4ACB-8134-958CD4A0E64A@cwts.leidenuniv.nl> Dear colleagues, We also paid tribute to Eugene Garfield in two obituaries. The first was published a few days after Gene passed away with personal reflections by Ton van Raan and myself: http://bit.ly/2nUGmH0 The second was published in Nature today: http://rdcu.be/qi1b with regards, Paul Wouters Professor of Scientometrics Director Centre for Science and Technology Studies Leiden University Visiting address: Willem Einthoven Building Wassenaarseweg 62A 2333 AL Leiden Mail address: P.O. Box 905 2300 AX Leiden T: +31 71 5273909 (secr.) F: +31 71 5273911 E: p.f.wouters at cwts.leidenuniv.nl NEW: CWTS blog: http://www.cwts.nl/blog# CWTS home page: www.cwts.nl Research Dreams: www.researchdreams.nl -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From anthi at isast.org Sun Mar 26 16:58:30 2017 From: anthi at isast.org (Anthi) Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2017 23:58:30 +0300 Subject: [Sigmetrics] Fwd: one more tribute to Gene Garfield In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <024d01d2a673$ba8390c0$2f8ab240$@isast.org> Dear Friends, Dear Colleagues, With pleasure we invite you to participate, submit an Abstract and/or organize and chair an Invited Session (4-6 talks) or address an invited talk in the forthcoming Conference in Limerick, Ireland ((23-26 May 2017) for the 9th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2017, http://www.isast.org ) which is organized under the umbrella of ISAST (International Society for the Advancement of Science and Technology). If you already have submitted your contribution ignore this message. However, please note that the early bird registration is approaching (30 March 2017). This is the ninth year of the conference which brings together different disciplines on library and information science; it is a multi?disciplinary conference that covers the Library and Information Science topics in conjunction to other disciplines (e.g. big data, open data and open source, innovation and technological transfer, management and marketing, statistics and data analysis, information technology, human resources, museums, archives, special librarianship, etc). The conference invites special and contributed sessions, oral communications, workshops and posters. Target Group The target group and the audience are library professionals in a more general sense: professors, researchers, students, administrators, stakeholders, technologists, museum scientists, archivists, decision makers and managers, information scientists, librarians, records managers, web developers, IT specialists, taxonomists, statisticians, marketing managers, philologist, subject and reference librarians et al. Main topics The emphasis is given to the models and the initiatives focus on the Data. The conference will consider, but not be limited to, the following indicative themes: 1. Data Mining, content analysis, taxonomies, ontologies 2. Open Data, Open Access, Analysis and Applications 3. Big Data and its Management 4. Information Ethics 5. Information and Knowledge Management 6. Synergies, Organizational Models and Information Systems 7. Multimedia Systems and Applications 8. Computer Networks and Social Networks, 9. Health Reference and Informatics 10. Information Technologies in Education 11. Decision making in service innovation 12. STM information development Special Sessions ? Workshops You may send proposals for Special Saessions (4-6 papers) or Workshops (more than 2 sessions) including the title and a brief description at: secretar at isast.org or from the electronic submission at the web page: http://www.isast.org/abstractsubmission.html You may also send Abstracts/Papers to be included in the proposed sessions, to new sessions or as contributed papers at the web page: http://www.isast.org/abstractsubmission.html Contributions may be realized through one of the following ways a. structured abstracts (not exceeding 500 words) and presentation; b. full papers (not exceeding 9,000 words); c. posters (not exceeding 2,500 words); In all the above cases at least one of the authors ought to be registered in the conference. Abstracts and full papers should be submitted electronically within the timetable provided in the web page: http://www.isast.org/. The abstracts and full papers should be in compliance to the author guidelines: http://www.isast.org/ All abstracts will be published in the Conference Book of Abstracts and in the website of the Conference. The papers of the conference will be published in the website of the conference, after the permission of the author(s). Student submissions Professors and Supervisors are encouraged to organize conference sessions of Postgraduate theses and dissertations. Post Graduate Student sessions for research are especially organized. Please direct any questions regarding the QQML 2017 Conference and Student Research Presentations to: the secretariat of the conference at: secretar at isast.org Important dates: Deadline of abstracts submitted: 20 December 2016 Reviewer?s response: in 3 weeks after submission Early registration: 30th of March 2017 Paper and Presentation Slides: 1st of May 2017 Conference dates: 23-26 May 2017 Paper contributors have the opportunity to be published in the QQML e- Journal, which continues to retain the right of first choice, however in addition they have the chance to be published in other scientific journals. QQML e- Journal is included in EBSCOhost and DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals). Submissions of abstracts to special or contributed sessions could be sent directly to the conference secretariat at secretar at isast.org. Please refer to the Session Number, as they are referred at the conference website to help the secretariat to classify the submissions. For more information and Abstract/Paper submission and Special Session Proposals please visit the conference website at: http://www.isast.org or contact the secretary of the conference at : secretar at isast.org Looking forward to welcoming you in Limerick, With our best regards, On behalf of the Conference Committee Anthi Katsirikou, PhD Conference Co-Chair University of Piraeus Library Director Head, European Documentation Center Board Member of the Greek Association of Librarians and Information Professionals anthi at asmda.com If you don't like to receive messages regarding the QQML2017 Conference, please click here: Unsubscribe See you in Limerick, Kind regards, Anthi Katsirikou (Ms) Librarian, PhD, MSc QQML Conference co-chair Director, University of Piraeus Library Coordinator of European Documentation Centers in Greece Member of the Board of the Association of Greek Librarians and Information Professionals IFLA Member ALA/ ACRL Member http://www.isast.org Fax 0030 210 4142330 From: SIGMETRICS [mailto:sigmetrics-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Michel Menou Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2017 6:57 PM To: sig metrics Subject: [Sigmetrics] Fwd: one more tribute to Gene Garfield -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Gene Garfield Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 15:56:46 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam To: .../... 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