ABFR-index: correlation between "soccer" scientific production and ranking

Introducción: La sociedad reclama a la ciencia aporte de soluciones que reviertan las inversiones en investigación. Objetivo: Analizar la relación existente entre el ranking de un indicador bibliométrico, producción científica del tópico “fútbol/soccer” y el ranking de un indicador de la influencia de los resultados de la investigación de este tópico en la sociedad, rankings de Fútbol. Resultados: Correlación directa y moderadamente significativa entre ranking de nº publicaciones WoS 2010 y ranking FIFA 2010 con un rs=0,520, p=0,000, y R2=0,238. Siendo positivo ABFR-Index=0,575 y moderadamente significativo. Conclusiones: Hay influencia directa de los resultados de la investigación en la sociedad en relación al tópico “fútbol/soccer”; ABFR-Index será un referente para interpretar las relaciones e influencias entre mundo científico y sociedad.Introduction: Society asks for solutions to science to get return on investment in research. Objective: To analyze the relationship between the ranking of a bibliometric indicator, scientific production of “soccer” topic, and the ranking of an indicator of the influence of the results of research on this topic in society, soccer rankings. Results: Moderately significant direct correlation between ranking WoS publications 2010 and FIFA ranking 2010 with an rs =.520, p =.000, R2=.238. ABFR-Index =.575 remains positive and moderately significant. Conclusions: There is a direct influence on society of the results of research on the “soccer” topic. Therefore ABFR-Index will be in future a reference to interpret the relationship and influences between the scientific world and society

Isaac Asimov’s sci-fi novella “Profession” versus professionalism: Reflections on the (missing) scientific revolutions in the 21th century

This is a partly provocative essay edited as a humanitarian study in philosophy of science and social philosophy. The starting point is Isaac Asimov’s famous sci-fi novella “Profession” (1957) to be “back” extrapolated to today’s relation between Thomas Kuhn’s “normal science” and “scientific revolutions” (1962). The latter should be accomplished by Asimov’s main personage George Platen’s ilk (called “feeble minded” in the novella) versus the “burned minded” professionals able only to “normal science”. Francis Fukuyama’s “end of history” in post-Hegelian manner is now interpreted to an analogically supposed “end of scientific history” without “scientific revolutions” any more. The relevant dystopia of the prolonged or even “eternal” period of normal science is justified to the contemporary institution of science due to mechanisms such as “peer-review”, “impact-factor rating”, the projects’ competition for funding, etc. Positive feedbacks forcing all scientists needing careers to be more and more orthodox are demonstrated therefore establishing for that dystopia to be the real state of contemporary science. Two counterfactual case studies based correspondingly on Feyerabend’s “Against method” (1975) if Galilei should make his discoveries today and Sokal’s hoax (1996) if he suggested a scientific masterpiece to be really rejected by journals are discussed. Still one case study considering the abundance of Kelvin’s “clouds” on the horizon of today’s physics (dark matter, dark energy, entanglement, quantum gravitation, phenomena refuting the Big Bang, etc.) serves to verify the aforementioned conjecture that science has already entered that dystopia of eternal normal science. The conception of “ontomathematics” implying “creation ex nihilo” being scandalous for the dominating paradigm is sketched as an eventual revolutionary way out. An imaginary and utopic “happy end” reinterpreting the analogical “happy end” of Asimov’s “Profession” finishes the essay “instead of conclusion” relying on the Internet and AI in an increasingly “fluid” and anti-hierarchical society

An examination of computer-mediated communication's scholarly communication.

This dissertation asks "what is meant by computer-mediated communication?" CMC was defined as it exists in the scholarly communication concerning business, education, psychology, sociology, and social sciences. This exploratory longitudinal analysis: examined the dynamic of computer-mediated communication in general, identified where academic scrutiny was being focused, and gives a general sense of the kinds of issues that were dominant during the time of examination.There were disparate foci between disciplines of differing perspectives. Multi-disciplinary with some interdisciplinary linkages would be a good description of CMC. Where there was interdisciplinary overlap, the communication discipline appears to be the boundary spanner in the majority of cases. This role did not extend to the business index analyzed.What was found was an area of scholarly communication, heavily popularized in education-related journals. Psychology and other social science affiliated disciplines contributed in a less prolific fashion.Specifically, this study employed bibliometric analytical techniques to establish CMC's artifacts, producers, and concepts within that domain. These were defined as journals, authors of those journals, and conceptual keywords. Artifacts and producers were identified based on their prevalence in the field and academic orientation. A more fine-grained analysis was applied to concepts. They were examined in terms of their prevalence, academic orientation and also their relationship to each other.This study was significant for three reasons. First, it documented CMC's historical emergence. Second, it identified descriptive boundaries concerning CMC's authors, journals, and areas of inquiry that were prevalent. Third, it examines the communication discipline's role in the literature as defined. Additionally, it provides guidance concerning CMC's future research.The distribution of first authors was overwhelming populated by one-time authorship. This significantly differed from theoretically defined literatures associated with a field of study. Moreover, CMC's articles tended to be localized in a relatively few journals. Clusters of conceptual topics tended to be database affiliated. Those with the most wide ranging support among all databases tended to come from topics traditionally associated with the communication discipline. Also "telecommunications", "information network" and "Internet" affiliated topics were widely indicated from a number of the databases

Generalizations of Egghe's g-index

This paper introduces the generalized Egghe-indices as a new family of scientific impact measures for ranking the output of scientific researchers. The definition of this family is strongly inspired by Egghe's well-known g-index. The main contribution of the paper is a family of axiomatic characterizations that characterize every generalized Egghe-index in terms of four axioms

Generalizations of Egghe's g-index

This paper introduces the generalized Egghe-indices as a new family of scientific impact measures for ranking the output of scientific researchers. The definition of this family is strongly inspired by Egghe's well-known g-index. The main contribution of the paper is a family of axiomatic characterizations that characterize every generalized Egghe-index in terms of four axioms