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Visualizing changes over time: A history of information retrieval through the lens of descriptor tri-occurrence mapping
This study provides an historical analysis of the discipline of information retrieval (IR) for three time periods: 1980—1984, 1990—1994 and 2000—2004. This analysis is done through the use of a novel bibliometric technique called tri-occurrence analysis, in which the descriptor ‘information retrieval’ is used as a filter term within the traditional technique of co-occurrence analysis. The resulting data is visualized by means of Pathfinder Network analysis. The findings provide evidence of an evolution in the IR landscape over the three decades from an emphasis on systems-, storage- and educat...
Source: Journal of Information Science current issue - August 9, 2010 Author: Sugimoto, C. R., McCain, K. W.

Introducing the MyRI project - Measuring Your Research Impact (Ireland)
Four Irish academic libraries are collaborating to produce online learning resources to support bibliometrics and research assessment awareness and training
Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog - July 21, 2010

Scholarly Publishing, Bibliometrics: Global Map of Science
The Latest Global Map of Science This Global Map of Science is based on research-front data for the six-year period ending in December 2009. The map shows the major subject areas within fields linked together in a network based on the same principles as our research-front maps showing highly cited papers. To create a map of science, we start with all research fronts in Essential Science Indicators from Thomson Reuters, and compute the links between fronts based on how often they are co-cited—that is, the frequency that current papers jointly cite two given fronts. Successive applications of a clustering process then gro...
Source: ResourceShelf - July 11, 2010 Author: resourceshelf Tags: Citation Reports Scholarly Publishing Science

Free Access to Editorial and Book Reviews: The July 2010 Issue of Learned Information is Now Available
Updated/Repost: Sorry for the goof with the first attempt to share the info. Only the editorial and book reviews are available no charge. Other articles are available to members and via Ingenta (fee-based). The full text of Learned Information becomes free for everyone one year after publication. Learned Information, July 2010 (23.3) Direct to Table of Contents Editorial (Free) Why usage is useless Author: Singleton, Alan Case Study Gaining ISO 9001: the experience of Oxford Journals Author: Smith, Maxine Is it worth establishing institutional repositories? The strategies for open access to Spanish peer-reviewed article...
Source: ResourceShelf - July 4, 2010 Author: resourceshelf Tags: Uncategorized

Proposal for Citation Analysis Research (Noting Up)
Are any members of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries doing any recent bibliometric analysis of case law citation and noting up? I know of several such efforts in the past (see the Research Databank of their Committee to Promote Research). There is also of course the study done by Greg Wurzer, Aleksandra Zivanovic and Rhonda O’Neill (“Canadian Electronic Citators: An Evaluation of their Accuracy and Efficiency” (2004) 29 Can. L. Libraries Rev. 68) and various citator comparisons done by American colleagues a few years back in the Law Library Journal. However, I think the time has come with the maturity of ...
Source: Slaw - June 30, 2010 Author: Ted Tjaden Tags: Legal Information: Information Management Legal Information: Libraries & Research

Westlaw Canada – Added Search Features
Westlaw Canada has added some search features: 1) Did you mean? If you misspell your keywords in a search (e.g., “fiducary”), the system will prompt you to see if you meant the correctly spelled word (e.g., “fiduciary”). Interestingly enough, the misspelled “fiducary” still had 5 results which raises the issue if one should always truncate the term to “fid!” (this recalls a library school exercise I used to assign in the old days prior to there being online citators for UK cases – the exercise had students “note up” the famous Jarvis v. Swan Tours decision. ...
Source: Slaw - June 30, 2010 Author: Ted Tjaden Tags: Legal Information: Libraries & Research Legal Information: Publishing

Two Free Bibliographic Databases from EBSCO: Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts & GreenFILE
A news release reminded us of something we’ve posted about in the past but had forgotten about. We hope they’re of interest and value. EBSCO provides free access (registration is not required) to one bibliographic database and another database bibliographic data and a limited amount of full text to open access publications. 1) LISTA (Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts) LISTA indexes more than 560 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and nearly 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, ...
Source: ResourceShelf - June 22, 2010 Author: resourceshelf Tags: Uncategorized

Conference Presentation (Slides): The Impact Factor of Open Access Journals: Data and Yrends
Presentation By: Elena Giglia, University of Turin In ELPUB 2010 – Publishing in the networked world: Transforming the nature of communication, Helsinki (Finland), 16-18 June 2010 (via E-LIS) Access the Presentation (62 Slides; PDF) From an Abstract: This work is aimed at testing the most trational bibliometric indicator, Impact Factor, and Open Access journals. It is focused mainly on the JCR Science edition, because of the largest coverage in OA journals (about 5%). OA journals rank in the top fifty percentiles with a 38,62% share. The research is to be continued on the incoming JCR 2010 edition. Source: ELPUB (vi...
Source: ResourceShelf - June 21, 2010 Author: resourceshelf Tags: Uncategorized

MLA’10 Week in Review From the MLA Blog
Lots of things happened at the meeting and even those of us who were there and blogging had a hard time keeping up, so I thought I would provide a week in review of sorts from the Annual Meeting blog posts. Since bloggers are still adding posts (after MLA) I will add their links to this list as soon as possible. Please note the links aren’t always in order of how they were posted on the MLA Blog. Due to the hectic nature of the conference many people posted about events that happened a day or two ago from the posting date. True to my librarian organizing nature I have tried to put the posts in some sort of day/...
Source: The Krafty Librarian - June 1, 2010 Author: KraftyLibrarian Tags: Uncategorized

Semantic Web: Who is who in the field -- a Bibliometric analysis
The Semantic Web (SW) is one of the main efforts aiming to enhance human and machine interaction by representing data in an understandable way for machines to mediate data and services. It is a fast-moving and multidisciplinary field. This study conducts a thorough bibliometric analysis of the field by collecting data from Web of Science (WOS) and Scopus for the period of 1960—2009. It utilizes a total of 44,157 papers with 651,673 citations from Scopus, and 22,951 papers with 571,911 citations from WOS. Based on these papers and citations, it evaluates the research performance of the SW by identifying the most produ...
Source: Journal of Information Science current issue - May 27, 2010 Author: Ying Ding,

What lies behind the averages and significance of citation indicators in different disciplines?
The limitations of citation-based indicators include a lack of coverage, no normalization with respect to the length of reference lists (with a potential bias in favour of reviews), and different citation habits. As a consequence, the distributions of the indicators are not comparable across different disciplines. Here we show that the most popular journal citation indicators used in quality assessment — the journal impact factors of Thomson Scientific and the scientific journal rankings of Scopus — are strongly correlated with the proportion of within-database references, and even more so with the number of wi...
Source: Journal of Information Science current issue - May 27, 2010 Author: Lancho-Barrantes, B. S., Guerrero-Bote, V. P., Moya-Anegon, F.

Research analytics
Analytics is big business. Organizations are increasingly turning to the analysis of transactional and other data to inform decision-making. Websites are refined based on analysis of traffic. Companies may use analytics to optimize inventory. And so on. I was struck by the parallel with business analytics when reading some brochures about Elsevier's SciVal. These were part of a pack distributed at the Emtacl10 conference in Trondheim recently. They include some quotes: We need reliable support to help us make smarter, defendable decisions about allocating internal funding. (Vice Chancellor for Research) Decision making...
Source: Lorcan Dempsey's weblog - May 15, 2010 Tags: Analytics and measurement Research, learning and scholarly communication

Canadian Association of Law Libraries Conference Meetings
The 2010 annual conference of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries (CALL) is underway in Windsor, Ontario.Some highlights from this morning:1) the Courthouse and Law Society Libraries Special Interest Group (SIG) held its annual business meeting. You can find the SIG's annual report on the CALL website.At the meeting, a number of members briefly described some of their projects of the past year.The Hamilton Law Association library has created a Facebook page to disseminate information about continuing legal education materials, training seminars and new titles.The Nova Scotia Barristers' Society library has created a...
Source: Library Boy - May 9, 2010 Author: Michel-Adrien

UKSG
'So what was the most interesting issue that came up at the [UKSG] conference?' asked an e-mail that arrived this afternoon, as I hurtled south on the train to King's Cross. I was stuck for a reply. It's hard to process three days of rich ideas about more or less everything that librarians and publishers have to deal with in the modern world. A frivolous answer would be 'tartan'. I don't believe Edinburgh has seem quite so much checked woollen cloth since George IV's visit in 1822. This was the theme of the conference dinner and, to my considerable surprise, I won the prize for its best interpretation. I wore evening dress...
Source: Tom Roper's Weblog - April 14, 2010 Author: Tom Roper

The effectiveness of the practice of correction and republication in the biomedical literature.
Related Articles The effectiveness of the practice of correction and republication in the biomedical literature. J Med Libr Assoc. 2010 Apr;98(2):135-9 Authors: Peterson GM OBJECTIVE: This research measures the effectiveness of the practice of correction and republication of invalidated articles in the biomedical literature by analyzing the rate of citation of the flawed and corrected versions of scholarly articles over time. If the practice of correction and republication is effective, then the incidence of citation of flawed versions should diminish over time and increased incidence of c...
Source: PubMed: "Journal of the Medi... - April 1, 2010 Author: Peterson GM Tags: J Med Libr Assoc

Hong Kong University Institutional Repository Uses Scopus API for Researcher Citation Data
Researcher pages in Hong Kong University's institutional repository will be updated with citation data generated by Elsevier's Scopus API. Here's an excerpt from the press release: The Scopus API offers users the opportunity to creatively interact with Scopus data by building mashups. It also allows access and usage of Scopus data inside and outside of the traditional library domain through applications based on the API. The API returns Scopus data in a format that easily integrates into an application or a web site. The majority of Scopus data is already available through the API, which can currently be used ...
Source: DigitalKoans - February 4, 2010 Author: admin Tags: Institutional Repositories

links for 2010-01-28
Research Trends – Sparking debate From article about SNIP – "Across a subject field as broad as scholarly communication, assessing journal impact by citations to a journal in a two-year time frame is obviously going to favor those subjects that cite heavily, and rapidly. Some fields, particularly those in the life sciences, tend to conform to this citation pattern better than others, leading to some widely recognized distortions." (tags: scopus sjr snip elsevier journals journalmetrics SCIimago CWTS) Research Trends A question of prestige From article: "Prestige measured by quantity of citation...
Source: LIS :: Michael Habib - January 28, 2010 Author: Michael C. Habib Tags: Unfiled

La investigación sobre conjuntos difusos en España
Un nuevo artículo de ec3, esta vez dedicado a estudiar el área de conjuntos difusos, junto a varios investigadores del departamento de Ciencias de la Computación e IA de la UGR. Os dejo el resumenIntroduction. Presents the first bibliometric study on the evolution of the fuzzy sets theory field. It is specially focused on the research carried out by the Spanish comunity. Method. The CoPalRed software, for network analysis, and the co-word analysis technique are used. Analysis. bibliometric maps showing the main associations among the main concepts in the field are provided for the periods 1965-1993, 1994-1998, 199...
Source: EC3noticias - January 19, 2010 Author: álvaro cabezas

Libraries and research excellence
Last month I mentioned the publication of A comparative review of research assessment regimes in five countries and the role of libraries in the research assessment process, which had been produced for us by Key Perspectives. It is a detailed report, and I also said that we’d shortly issue a companion report with some background information on the question of research assessment – ie the system by which universities are evaluated for their research performance by the bodies that fund them, with some of the key findings for each country, and with some recommendations for research libraries. That companion report, Resear...
Source: hangingtogether.org - January 14, 2010 Author: John Tags: Europe Libraries Miscellaneous Supporting Scholarship

Institutional researcher pages: an example
I have written a couple of times recently (here and here) about institutional and indvidual reputation management. Think, for example, of faculty profiles: the managed disclosure of expertise and research activity. This has often been an informal personal or departmental activity. However, there is now a variety of institutional initiatives which may pull together data about expertise, experience, publications, grants, courses taught, and so on (see OSU Pro at OSU, or Vivo at Cornell, for example). Such initiatives may sit between between several organizational units on campus: Research Support, PR/Communications, IT, Li...
Source: Lorcan Dempsey's weblog - January 2, 2010 Tags: Analytics and measurement Libraries - organization and services Marketing OCLCr Research, learning and scholarly communication Social networking Websites: design and role

HLWIKI Canada – Improve your research skills
Associations bibliometrics Blogs Canadian Health Librarians - Leaders, Past and Present Clinical librarianship Collection development in biomedicine Consortia Digital libraries Institutional repositories Complementary & alternative medicine (CAM) Consumer health information Patient education Current awareness Databases in biomedicine MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL Interfaces PubMed Point of care decision-making tools - Overview Dublin ...
Source: UBC Academic Search - Google Scholar Blog - January 1, 2010

Research assessment and the library ...
I am pleased to note the appearance of a new report on research assessment and the role of libraries. This has been prepared as part of our Research Information Management stream of work in support of the RLG Partnership. The study is a comparative review of formal assessment regimes in five countries. Such assessment regimes exist to monitor public research spending in various ways, and are specific to national circumstances. Although such regimes are not universal, evaluation, ranking and assessment of various sorts are becoming more common and some of the library responses discussed (bibliometric assistance, reputatio...
Source: Lorcan Dempsey - December 27, 2009 Tags: Analytics and measurement Learning and research - systems and technologies OCLC OCLCr RLG Partnership Research, learning and scholarly communication

National systems of research assessment and implications for libraries
Research assessment is a very big deal in some countries. Countries whose university systems are largely publicly-funded routinely check up on the research quality of individual universities to ensure that they are squeezing the best possible performance out of their systems. They do this because they see a link between high-quality research and economic development. The economic potential of research is growing in importance as national ‘knowledge economies’ recognise the need for international research excellence, and see universities as a key driver. We have just published a report which reviews the researc...
Source: hangingtogether.org - December 22, 2009 Author: John Tags: Europe Libraries Measurement and Behaviors Miscellaneous Modeling new services Research Note Supporting Scholarship

The importance of books ..
I read the interesting Communicating knowledge: how and why UK researchers publish and disseminate their findings and its supplementary reports (literature review and bibliometric analysis) on a transatlantic flight the other day. (Incidentally, it must have been the most cramped large-plane seat I have ever been on - I could not use my laptop.) A brief overview and links to report components are available on the Research Information Network splash page. There is much of interest in the report about publishing and communications practices and about incentives. Given our general discussion of books and their contexts I...
Source: Lorcan Dempsey - December 20, 2009 Tags: Analytics and measurement Books, movies and reading ...

Bibliometrics as a tool for supporting prospective R&D decision-making in the health sciences
bibliometrics as a tool for supporting prospective R&D decision-making in the health sciences bibliometric analysis is an increasingly important part of a broader ‘toolbox’ of evaluation methods available to R&D policymakers to support decision-making. In the US, UK and Australia, for example, there is evidence of gradual convergence over the past ten years towards a model of university research assessment and ranking incorporating the use of bibliometric measures. In Britain, the Department of Health (England) has shown growing interest in using bibliometric analysis to support prospective R&D ...
Source: ResourceShelf - December 10, 2009 Author: ResourceShelf Tags: Citation Reports Papers and Presentations Scholarly Publishing Science Search News Source File

The December, 2009 (35.4) Issue of the IFLA Journal is Now Available
Access the Complete Issue (PDF) Articles Include: Electronic Book Collection Development in Italy: a case study Agnese Perrone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305 Internet Use in Israeli Universities: a case study David Beno . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313 Libraries in Palestine Françoise Lefebvre-Danset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
Source: ResourceShelf - December 1, 2009 Author: resourceshelf Tags: Libraries and Librarianship

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (2000--2007): a Bibliometric study
The Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) has been playing a vital role in the dissemination of scholarly articles in library and information science since 1950. This paper presents the results of a bibliometric study of articles published in the JASIST from 2000 to 2007. It examines the distribution of papers under various headings, including authorship pattern and nature of collaboration, geographic distribution of articles, nature of cited and citing references, prolific authors and highly cited authors. Data were collected using the Web of Science and analyzed using Microsoft E...
Source: IFLA Journal current issue - November 27, 2009 Author: Mukherjee, B.

Lissabon: FINAL CALL FOR POSTERS AND PAPERS extended deadline 6 November 2009
The European Association for Health Information and Libraries EAHIL The 12th European Conference of Medical and Health Libraries, Estoril, Lisbon, Portugal, 14th – 18th June 2010 Last chance to submit your paper or poster. For the rules go to http://www.eahil2010.org/en/for-authors-presenters/abstract-submission Ich würde mich freuen, wer der ein oder andere noch etwas über seine Bibliothek und seine Aktivitäten erzählen möchte und einen Abstract einreichen würde. Nie waren die Chancen angenommen zu werden so gut wie dieses Jahr! Soweit es in meiner Macht steht, werde ich allen Teilnehmern und insbesondere d...
Source: medinfo - November 4, 2009 Author: ob Tags: EAHIL Kongresse EAHIL2010 Lissabon

Classifying documents with link-based Bibliometric measures
Abstract Automatic document classification can be used to organize documents in a digital library, construct on-line directories, improve the precision of web searching, or help the interactions between user and search engines. In this paper we explore how linkage information inherent to different document collections can be used to enhance the effectiveness of classification algorithms. We have experimented with three link-based bibliometric measures, co-citation, bibliographic coupling and Amsler, on three different document collections: a digital library of computer science papers, a web directory and an ...
Source: SpringerLink - Journal - October 23, 2009 Tags: Information Retrieval

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