A comparison of journal similarity across six disciplines using citing discipline analysis     

《Journal of Informetrics》2014,8(4):840-853

A similarity comparison is made between 120 journals from five allied Web of Science disciplines (Communication, Computer Science-Information Systems, Education & Educational Research, Information Science & Library Science, Management) and a more distant discipline (Geology) across three time periods using a novel method called citing discipline analysis that relies on the frequency distribution of Web of Science Research Areas for citing articles. Similarities among journals are evaluated using multidimensional scaling with hierarchical cluster analysis and Principal Component Analysis. The resulting visualizations and groupings reveal clusters that align with the discipline assignments for the journals for four of the six disciplines, but also greater overlaps among some journals for two of the disciplines or categorizations that do not necessarily align with their assigned disciplines. Some journals categorized into a single given discipline were found to be more closely aligned with other disciplines and some journals assigned to multiple disciplines more closely aligned with only one of the assigned disciplines. The proposed method offers a complementary way to more traditional methods such as journal co-citation analysis to compare journal similarity using data that are readily available through Web of Science.  相似文献   

No citation advantage for monograph-based collaborations?     

《Journal of Informetrics》2014,8(1):276-283

It is widely believed that collaboration is advantageous in science, for example, with collaboratively written articles tending to attract more citations than solo articles and strong arguments for the value of interdisciplinary collaboration. Nevertheless, it is not known whether the same is true for research that produces books. This article tests whether co-authored scholarly monographs attract more citations than solo monographs using books published before 2011 from 30 categories in the Web of Science. The results show that solo monographs numerically dominate collaborative monographs, but give no evidence of a citation advantage for collaboration on monographs. In contrast, for nearly all these subjects (28 out of 30) there was a citation advantage for collaboratively produced journal articles. As a result, research managers and funders should not incentivise collaborative research in book-based subjects or in research that aims to produce monographs, but should allow the researchers themselves to freely decide whether to collaborate or not.  相似文献   

Referenced Publication Years Spectroscopy applied to iMetrics: Scientometrics,Journal of Informetrics,and a relevant subset of JASIST     

《Journal of Informetrics》2014,8(1):162-174

We have developed a (freeware) routine for “Referenced Publication Years Spectroscopy” (RPYS) and apply this method to the historiography of “iMetrics,” that is, the junction of the journals Scientometrics, Informetrics, and the relevant subset of JASIST (approx. 20%) that shapes the intellectual space for the development of information metrics (bibliometrics, scientometrics, informetrics, and webometrics). The application to information metrics (our own field of research) provides us with the opportunity to validate this methodology, and to add a reflection about using citations for the historical reconstruction. The results show that the field is rooted in individual contributions of the 1920s to 1950s (e.g., Alfred J. Lotka), and was then shaped intellectually in the early 1960s by a confluence of the history of science (Derek de Solla Price), documentation (e.g., Michael M. Kessler's “bibliographic coupling”), and “citation indexing” (Eugene Garfield). Institutional development at the interfaces between science studies and information science has been reinforced by the new journal Informetrics since 2007. In a concluding reflection, we return to the question of how the historiography of science using algorithmic means—in terms of citation practices—can be different from an intellectual history of the field based, for example, on reading source materials.  相似文献   

基于引文网络的医学各学科间知识流动的规律与启示     

李盈  许萍 《中华医学图书馆杂志》2014,(12):1-5

以CNKI引文数据库医药卫生专题下的数据为研究对象,利用社会网络分析方法,分析了我国医学领域内的知识交流特点。结果表明：临床医学的知识流入量和知识流出量都位居第一,是知识交流网络中的核心;基础医学是其他医学学科的理论基础,属于医学网络中的重要知识源;中医学与外科学及其他临床类学科的交流密切;在跨学科医学研究中肿瘤学表现得比较活跃;口腔医学和精神病学在知识交流网络中与其他学科的交流较少,是独立性较强的两个学科。利用这些特点开展学科信息推送服务,可提高信息服务的针对性,加速不同医学学科间的知识交流,推动医学领域内的跨学科合作研究。  相似文献   

民族高校SCI科技文献统计与分析——以广西民族大学为例     

何华军 《广西高教研究》2014,(5):82-84

根据科学引文索引扩展版（SCIE）数据库收录情况,对1999—2013年广西民族大学被收录的科技文献从收录数量、文献类型、学科、作者、合作情况、引文等方面进行统计分析,揭示学校在SCI收录期刊发文的现状与科研能力,指出存在问题并提出提高科研论文被SCI收录的建议。  相似文献   

基于CSSC(I2008-2012年)信息生态被引文献计量研究     

孙玉琴 《江西图书馆学刊》2013,43(5):124-128

以中国社会科学引文索引(CSSCI)2008年至2012年信息生态的被引文献为研究对象,从被引频次角度进行统计和分析,得出被引年代、语种、类型分布规律及期刊、作者、机构、论文的学术竞争力排名及主题热点,以期对后续研究有所帮助。  相似文献   

What do Our Faculty Use? An Interdisciplinary Citation Analysis Study     

Lea Currie  Amalia Monroe-Gulick 《The Journal of Academic Librarianship》2013

During the fall of 2012 and spring of 2013, two librarians from the University of Kansas Libraries conducted a citation analysis of faculty publications in three broad disciplinary areas: humanities, social sciences, and science. The main purpose of research was to find out if the library provides adequate support to faculty researchers. The authors confirmed that KU Libraries provide access to the majority of items used by campus researchers. In addition, the findings will be used in collection management decisions, such as demand driven acquisition. Finally, the authors analyzed additional citation analysis studies in order to establish external benchmarks for their results.  相似文献   

Black Studies Scholarship and Its Coverage in Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science     

Carmelita Pickett 《资料收集管理》2013,38(4):260-275

This study analyzes the coverage of black studies journals as compared to women's studies journals in Web of Science, Academic Search Complete, and ArticleFirst. This study also examines black studies bibliographies and directories to identify journals that are suitable for inclusion in Journal Citation Reports and consequently Web of Science and evaluates seven black studies journals using the Thomson Reuters journal selection process.  相似文献   

Recent Citation Practices of the Indiana Supreme Court and the Indiana Court of Appeals     

《Legal Reference Services Quarterly》2013,32(1-2):103-119

Abstract

This study provides an empirical, practical measure of the citation practices of the two highest courts in the state of Indiana during a recent ten-year span (1994-2003). It focuses on the type of legal materials most frequently cited as authority, examining the importance of both primary and secondary sources. It also demonstrates the importance of housing and maintaining complete appellate briefs from the two highest courts in the state of Indiana.  相似文献   

Web-Based Citation Management Compared to EndNote: Options for Medical Sciences     

Melissa Gomis  Carole Gall  Frances A. Brahmi 《Medical reference services quarterly》2013,32(3):260-271

ABSTRACT

The authors of this article analyzed the differences in output when searching MEDLINE direct and MEDLINE via citation management software, EndNote X1®, EndNote Web®, and RefWorks^©. Several searches were performed on Ovid MEDLINE and PubMed directly. These searches were compared against the same searches conducted in Ovid MEDLINE and PubMed using the search features in EndNote X1, EndNote Web, and RefWorks. Findings indicated that for in-depth research users, should search the databases directly rather than through the citation management software interface. The search results indicated it would be appropriate to search databases via citation management software for citation verification tasks and for cursory keyword searching.  相似文献