31 research outputs found
A systematic empirical comparison of different approaches for normalizing citation impact indicators
We address the question how citation-based bibliometric indicators can best
be normalized to ensure fair comparisons between publications from different
scientific fields and different years. In a systematic large-scale empirical
analysis, we compare a traditional normalization approach based on a field
classification system with three source normalization approaches. We pay
special attention to the selection of the publications included in the
analysis. Publications in national scientific journals, popular scientific
magazines, and trade magazines are not included. Unlike earlier studies, we use
algorithmically constructed classification systems to evaluate the different
normalization approaches. Our analysis shows that a source normalization
approach based on the recently introduced idea of fractional citation counting
does not perform well. Two other source normalization approaches generally
outperform the classification-system-based normalization approach that we
study. Our analysis therefore offers considerable support for the use of
source-normalized bibliometric indicators
Benford's Law and articles of scientific journals: comparison of JCR(A (R)) and Scopus data
Benford's Law is a logarithmic probability distribution function used to predict the distribution of the first significant digits in numerical data. This paper presents the results of a study of the distribution of the first significant digits of the number of articles published of journals indexed in the JCR(A (R)) Sciences and Social Sciences Editions from 2007 to 2011. the data of these journals were also analyzed by the country of origin and the journal's category. Results considering the number of articles published informed by Scopus are also presented. Comparing the results we observe that there is a significant difference in the data informed in the two databases.Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de NĂvel Superior (CAPES)Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento CientĂfico e TecnolĂłgico (CNPq)INPE, Natl Inst Space Res, BR-12227010 Sao Jose Dos Campos, SP, BrazilUniversidade Federal de SĂŁo Paulo, UNIFESP, BR-12231280 Sao Jose Dos Campos, SP, BrazilITA, Aeronaut Inst Technol, BR-12228900 Sao Jose Dos Campos, SP, BrazilUniversidade Federal de SĂŁo Paulo, UNIFESP, BR-12231280 Sao Jose Dos Campos, SP, BrazilWeb of Scienc
A review of the literature on citation impact indicators
Citation impact indicators nowadays play an important role in research
evaluation, and consequently these indicators have received a lot of attention
in the bibliometric and scientometric literature. This paper provides an
in-depth review of the literature on citation impact indicators. First, an
overview is given of the literature on bibliographic databases that can be used
to calculate citation impact indicators (Web of Science, Scopus, and Google
Scholar). Next, selected topics in the literature on citation impact indicators
are reviewed in detail. The first topic is the selection of publications and
citations to be included in the calculation of citation impact indicators. The
second topic is the normalization of citation impact indicators, in particular
normalization for field differences. Counting methods for dealing with
co-authored publications are the third topic, and citation impact indicators
for journals are the last topic. The paper concludes by offering some
recommendations for future research
Extending the Foresight of Phillip Ein-Dor: Causal Knowledge Analytics
Phillip Ein-Dor advocated that electronic journals be more than a PDF of the established text model. He envisioned a transformation of scholarship. The need for such a transition has only grown since the first issue of JAIS in 2000 because the continuing growth and fragmentation of knowledge limits the generation of new knowledge. We propose drawing on analytics and AI to accelerate and transform scholarship, providing an appropriate tribute to a visionary IS leader
Extracting Causal Claims from Information Systems Papers with Natural Language Processing for Theory Ontology Learning
The number of scientific papers published each year is growing exponentially. How can computational tools support scientists to better understand and process this data? This paper presents a software-prototype that automatically extracts causes, effects, signs, moderators, mediators, conditions, and interaction signs from propositions and hypotheses of full-text scientific papers. This prototype uses natural language processing methods and a set of linguistic rules for causal information extraction. The prototype is evaluated on a manually annotated corpus of 270 Information Systems papers containing 723 hypotheses and propositions from the AIS basket of eight. F1-results for the detection and extraction of different causal variables range between 0.71 and 0.90. The presented automatic causal theory extraction allows for the analysis of scientific papers based on a theory ontology and therefore contributes to the creation and comparison of inter-nomological networks
Influence of journals indexed from a country on its research output: An empirical investigation
Scientific journals are currently the primary medium used by researchers to
report their research findings. The transformation of print journals into
e-journals has simplified the process of submissions to journals and also their
access has become wider. Journals are usually published by commercial
publishers, learned societies as well as Universities. There are different
number of journals published from different countries. This paper attempts to
explore whether the number of journals published from a country influences its
research output. Scopus master journal list is analysed to identify journals
published from 50 selected countries with significant volume of research
output. The following relationship are analysed: (a) number of journals from a
country and its research output, (b) growth rate of journals and research
output for different countries, (c) global share of journals and research
output for different countries, and (d) subject area-wise number of journals
and research output in that subject area for different countries. Factors like
journal packing density are also analysed. The results obtained show that for
majority of the countries, the number of journals is positively correlated to
their research output volume, though some other factors also play a role in
growth of research output. The study at the end presents a discussion of the
analytical outcomes and provides useful suggestions on policy perspectives for
different countries.Comment: 6 figures and 4 table
âFormal and informal networkedness among German Academicsâ: exploring the role of conferences and co-publications in scientific performance
This paper builds on the established finding that the performance of scholars depends on their interpersonal networks. Until now, these networks have largely been measured by analysing the credits and acknowledgements on their publications, especially their co-authorships. First, it seeks to clarify inconsistencies in existing findings by providing a comprehensive analysis of the effects of co-authorship among the overall population of actively publishing researchers from Germany. Second, it acknowledges that co-publication is only one very formal and explicit form of academic networking and develops a new indicator based on an academicâs inferred co-presence at conferences. Comparing the impact of these two different aspects of networkedness, we find that hierarchy and influence play a stronger role in determining a scientistâs performance in the context of informal networks than they do when considering formal co-publication networks