Measuring research impact: A first approximation of the achievements of the iSchools in ISI's information and library science category ??? An exploratory study

In this paper, we analyze those publications of the home institutes of the iSchools that are indexed by Thomson Reuters (ISI) Web of Science in the information science and library science category, and were published between 2000 and 2009

Comparing Typical Opening Move Choices Made by Humans and Chess Engines

The opening book is an important component of a chess engine, and thus computer chess programmers have been developing automated methods to improve the quality of their books. For chess, which has a very rich opening theory, large databases of high-quality games can be used as the basis of an opening book, from which statistics relating to move choices from given positions can be collected. In order to find out whether the opening books used by modern chess engines in machine versus machine competitions are ``comparable'' to those used by chess players in human versus human competitions, we carried out analysis on 26 test positions using statistics from two opening books one compiled from humans' games and the other from machines' games. Our analysis using several nonparametric measures, shows that, overall, there is a strong association between humans' and machines' choices of opening moves when using a book to guide their choices.Comment: 12 pages, 1 figure, 6 table

A scientometric look at scholory cooperation between Europe and Israel. An explorative study of a changing landscape.

Cooperation; Studies;

Attentes versus réalité

Les chercheurs qui analysent le Web s’appuient sur des données qui sont souvent collectées à l’aide des moteurs de recherche. Dans une précédente contribution (Bar-Ilan, 2005), l’auteur a proposé une liste d’objectifs pour le moteur de recherche idéal en expliquant le besoin de fonctionnalités spécifiques pour ce type d’activité. Ici, il revisite cette liste et examine si les principaux moteurs de recherche actuels peuvent répondre, au moins partiellement, aux exigences de l’outil de recherche idéal. Les principaux outils de recherche sont commerciaux et destinés à l’utilisateur « moyen » et non au chercheur scientifique qui analyse le Web, ils ne peuvent donc pas satisfaire toutes les demandes.Web research is based on data from the Web. Often data is collected using search engines. In a previous paper (Bar-Ilan, 2005) we proposed a “wish list” for the ideal search engine and explained the need for specific features. In this paper we revisit this list and examine whether the currently existing major search engines can at least partially fulfil the requirements of the ultimate search tool. The major search tools are commercial and are oriented towards the “average” user and not towards the Web researcher, and therefore are unable to meet all the requests

Israeli Parties and Party Leaders on Facebook during the 2013 Election Campaign

During the 2013 elections in Israel one of the major methods of interaction of the political parties and their leaders with potential voters was through their Facebook pages. These pages were followed for 50 days preceding the elections. For each page, 30% of the posts on the page were analyzed in terms of their rhetoric and subject. The largest number of the analyzed posts was intended for bonding with the audience, and unsurprisingly politics was the most frequent topic. The findings show that personal posts received the largest number of likes pointing to the personal nature of the elections. Findings were compared with results of analysis of the Facebook pages of the US Presidential candidates. Similarities were found, even though in Israel there is a party system and elections are not personal.ye