== Informetrics@NTNU(phd, 2010) ==
[[:informetrics]], [[:scientometrics]], [[:cybermetrics]], [[:bibliometrics]], [[:webometrics]]
=== Topics Covered in this Course===

* bibliometrics, informetrics, scientometrics, and cybermetrics
* bibliometrics
** The empirical foundations: the Science Citation Index
** The philosophical foundations
** The mathematical foundations
** Data collection and model development techniques
** Citation analysis
** Bibliographic Coupling, Co-citation, Co-word Analysis
** Issues in Bibliometrics – Scholarly Communication and Research Evaluation
* Scientometrics and Scientific Productivity
* Webometrics and Link Analysis

* Bibliographic Coupling
** [[:study:Glanzel, W. & Czerwon, H. J. (1996). A New Methodological Approach to Bibliographic Coupling and Its Application to the National, Regional and Institutional Level]]. Scientometrics 37 (2): 195-221.
** [[:study:Jarneving, B. (2007). Bibliographic Coupling and Its Application to Research-Front and Other Core Documents]]. Journal of Informetrics, 1 (4): 287-307.
* Eigenfactor and Journal Ranking
** West, J.D., Bergstrom, T.C. and Bergstrom, C.T. (2010). Big Macs and Eigenfactor Scores: Don't Let Correlation Coefficients Fool You. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, online ahead of print 
** West, J.D., Bergstrom, T.C. and Bergstrom, C.T. (2010). The EigenfactorTM Metrics: A network approach to assessing scholarly journals, College and Research Libraries. 71(3): 236-244.
** Elkins, M.R., Maher, C.G., Herbert R.D., Moseley, A.M. and Sherrington, C. (2010). Correlation between the Journal Impact Factor and three other journal citation indices. Scientometrics 85 (1): 81-93.

==Person==
* [[:people:Derek J. De Solla Price]]

== Premises (prior knowledge)==
* Information Production Process (IPP)
== Data representation ==
* How to Represent the Distribution of Sources and Items
** Size-Frequency Distribution
** Rank-frequency representation 
* Transformation for Plotting

==Models(Laws)==
* Lotka’s Law of Author Productivity
** Price's Law
* Bradford’s Law of Scatter: Journal Productivity 
* Zipf’s Law of Word Frequencies
** Pareto’s Law 
** 80/20 rule

== References ==
=== Books & Chapters ===
* Amudhavalli, A. (1997). Informetrics. In: International Encyclopedia of Information and Library Science.
* Borgman, C. L. ed. (1990). Scholarly Communication and Bibliometrics. Sage.
* [[:study:De Bellis, N. (2009). Bibliometrics and Citation Analysis]]: From the Science Citation Index to Cybermetrics. Scarecrow.
* Moed, H. F. (2005). Citation Analysis in Research Evaluation. Springer.
* Price, D.J de Solla. (1980). The citation cycle. In: Key Papers in Information Science. Knowledge Industry Publications, 1980.
* Thelwall, M. (2004). Link Analysis: An Information Science Approach. Academic Press
* Wolfram, D. (2003). Applied Informetrics for Information Retrieval Research.  Libraries Unlimited.
* 何光國（1994）。文獻計量學導論。台北，三民。
* 邱均平主編（2007）。信息計量學。武漢大學。
* 蔡明月（2003）。資訊計量學與文獻特性。台北：華泰。
* Leo Egghe and Ronald Rousseau (1990). Introduction to Informetrics
* Mike Rhelwall (2004). Link Analysis


=== Conferences ===
* Annual Conference of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T)
* Biennial Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics & Informetrics (ISSI)

* International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics
* Conference on Science & Technology Indicators
* International Conference on Webometrics, Informetrics, and Scientometrics


=== Journals ===
  * Scientometrics
  * Journal of Informetrics 
  * Cybermetrics
  * Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
  * Journal of Documentation
  * Journal of Information Science
  * Information Visualization
  * Webology
  * Social Studies of Science
  * Science Studies
  * American Sociological Review
  * Research Evaluation
  * Research Policy
  * Information Processing & Management
  * Library Trends
  * Library Quarterly
  * Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication


=== Articles ===
* Almind, T.C., & Ingwersen, P. (1997). Informetric analyses on the World Wide Web: methodological approaches to 'webometrics'. Journal of Documentation 53(4), 404-426.
* Amin, M., & Mabe, M. A. (2003). Impact factors: use and abuse. MEDICINA, 63, 347-354.
* Björneborn, L., & Ingwersen, P. (2004). Toward a basic framework for webometrics. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 55(14), 1216-1227.
* Breitzman, A., & Thomas, P. (2002). Using patent citation analysis to target/value M&A candidates. Research Technology Management, 45(5), 28-36.
* Brooks, T.A. (1986). Evidence of complex citer motivations. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 37, 34-36.
* Egghe, L. (1991). Theory of collaboration and collaborative measures. Information Processing & Management, 27(2-3):177-202.
* Eom, S. B. (1996). Mapping the intellectual structure of research in decision support systems through author cocitation analysis (1971-1993). Decision Support Systems, 16(4), 315-338.
* Garfield, E. (1972). Citation analysis as a tool in journal evaluation. Science, 178, 471-479.
* Ingwersen, P. (1998). The calculation of web impact factors. Journal of Documentation, 54(2), 236-243.
* Leydesdorff, L. (1998). Theories of citation? Scientometrics, 43(1), 5-25.
* Line, M.B. (1987). Relationship between productivity and obsolescence. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 38, 307-308.
* Narin, F. (1994). Patent bibliomatrics. Scientomertics, 30(1), 147-155.
* Narin, F. (1995). Patent as indicators for the evaluation of industrial research output. Scientomertics, 34(3), 489-496.
* Narin, F., & Hamilton, K. S. (1996). Bibliometric performance measure. Scientometrics, 36(3), 293-310.
* Sandstrom, A., Pettersson, I., & Nilsson, A. (2000). Knowledge production and knowledge flows in the Swedish biotechnology innovation system, Scientometrics. 48(2), 179-201.
* Tagliacozzo, R. (1977). Self-citations in scientific literature. Journal of Documentation, 33, 251-265.
* Thelwall, M., Vaughan, L., & Björneborn, L. (2005). Webometrics. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 39, 81-135.
* van Leeuwen, T. N. (2006). The application of bibliometric analyses in the evaluation of social science research. who benefits from it, and why it is still feasible. Scientometrics, 66(1), 133-154.
* van Raan, A. F. J. (2006). Comparison of the Hirsch-index with standard bibliometric indicators and with peer judgment, Scientometrics, 67(3), 491-502.
* Watt, R. J., & Porter, A. L. (1997). Innovation forecasting. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 56, 25-47.
* White, H. D., & Griffith. B. C. (1981). Author Co-citation. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 32, 163-171.
* White, H. D., McCain, K. W. (1989). Bibliometrics. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 24, 119-186.
* White, H. D., McCain, K. W. (1998). Visualizing a discipline: an author co-citation analysis of information science, 1972-1995. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 49(4), 327-356.
* Zhao, D. (2005). Challenges of scholarly publications on the web to the evaluation of science: a comparison of author visibility on the web and in print journals. Information Processing & Management, 41, 1403-1418.
* 王崇德（1996）。關於文獻計量學的爭議。資訊傳播與圖書館學，2(4)，15-21。
* 黃慕萱、陳達仁、張瀚文（2003）。從專利計量的觀點評估國家科技競爭力。中國圖書館學會會報，70，18-30。
* 蔡明月（1997），學術傳播與書目計量學。教育資料與圖書館學，35(1)，民國86年，頁38-57。
* 蔡明月（1998）。書目計量學、科學計量學與資訊計量學。教育資料與圖書館學，34(3)， 268-284。


== Paper reading ==
===Scientometrics (2010) 85,Vol.2===
* [[:study:Calver, M., Wardell-Johnson, G., Bradley, S., & Taplin, R. (2010). What makes a journal international]]? A case study using conservation biology journals. Scientometrics, 85(2), 387-400.
* [[:study:Breimer, L., & Nilsson, T. (2010). A longitudinal and cross-sectional study of Swedish biomedical PhD processes 1991–2009 with emphasis on international and gender aspects]]. Scientometrics, 85(2), 401-414.
* [[:study:Assimakis, N., & Adam, M. (2010). A new author’s productivity index p-index|Assimakis, N., & Adam, M. (2010). A new author’s productivity index: p-index]]. Scientometrics, 85(2), 415-427.
* [[:study:Južni , P., Pe lin, S., Žaucer, M., Mandelj, T., Pušnik, M., & Demšar, F. (2010). Scientometric indicators]]: peer-review, bibliometric methods and conflict of interests. Scientometrics, 85(2), 429-441.
* [[:study:Lancho-Barrantes, B., Guerrero-Bote, V., & Moya-Anegón, F. (2010). The iceberg hypothesis revisited]]. Scientometrics, 85(2), 443-461.
* [[:study:Cho, C., Hu, M., & Liu, M. (2010). Improvements in productivity based on co-authorship]]: a case study of published articles in China. Scientometrics, 85(2), 463-470.
* [[:study:Haddow, G., & Genoni, P. (2010). Citation analysis and peer ranking of Australian social science journals]]. Scientometrics, 85(2), 471-487.
* [[:study:De Marchi, M., & Rocchi, M. (2010). Note on R&D expenditures and fixed capital formation]]. Scientometrics, 85(2), 489-494.
* [[:study:Miguel, S., Moya-Anegón, F., & Herrero-Solana, V. (2010). The impact of the socio-economic crisis of 2001]] on the scientific system of Argentina from the scientometric perspective. Scientometrics, 85(2), 495-507.
* [[:study:Bolaños-Pizarro, M., Thijs, B., & Glänzel, W. (2010). Cardiovascular research in Spain]]: A comparative scientometric study. Scientometrics, 85(2), 509-526.
* [[:study:Meyer, M., Debackere, K., & Glänzel, W. (2010). Can applied science be ‘good science’]]? Exploring the relationship between patent citations and citation impact in nanoscience. Scientometrics, 85(2), 527-539.
* [[:study:Jeong, S., & Kim, H. (2010). Intellectual structure of biomedical informatics reflected in scholarly events]]. Scientometrics, 85(2), 541-551.
* [[:study:Perakakis, P., Taylor, M., Mazza, M., & Trachana, V. (2010). Natural selection of academic papers]]. Scientometrics, 85(2), 553-559.
* [[:study:Prathap, G. (2010). The iCE approach for journal evaluation]]. Scientometrics, 85(2), 561-565.
* [[:study:Hagen, N. (2010). Deconstructing doctoral dissertations how many papers does it take to make a PhD|Hagen, N. (2010). Deconstructing doctoral dissertations: how many papers does it take to make a PhD]]? Scientometrics, 85(2), 567-579.
* [[:study:Shin, J., & Cummings, W. (2010). Multilevel analysis of academic publishing across disciplines]]: research preference, collaboration, and time on research. Scientometrics, 85(2), 581-594.
* [[:study:Shapira, P., Youtie, J., & Porter, A. (2010). The emergence of social science research on nanotechnology]]. Scientometrics, 85(2), 595-611.
* [[:study:Mingers, J., & Lipitakis, E. (2010). Counting the citations]]: a comparison of Web of Science and Google Scholar in the field of business and management. Scientometrics, 85(2), 613-625.

===Scientometrics (2010) 85,Vol.1===
* [[:study:Padial, A., Nabout, J., Siqueira, T., Bini, L., & Diniz-Filho, J. (2010). Weak evidence for determinants of citation frequency in ecological articles]]. Scientometrics, 85(1), 1-12.
* [[:study:Giuliani, F., De Petris, M., & Nico, G. (2010). Assessing scientific collaboration through coauthorship and content sharing]]. Scientometrics, 85(1), 13-28.
* [[:study:Fisher, E., Slade, C., Anderson, D., & Bozeman, B. (2010). The public value of nanotechnology]]? Scientometrics, 85(1), 29-39.
* [[:study:Bartneck, C., & Hu, J. (2010). The fruits of collaboration in a multidisciplinary field]]. Scientometrics, 85(1), 41-52.
* [[:study:Aminpour, F., Kabiri, P., Boroumand, M., Keshtkar, A., & Hejazi, S. (2010). Iranian Medical Universities in SCIE]]: evaluation of address variation. Scientometrics, 85(1), 53-63.
* [[:study:Su, H., & Lee, P. (2010). Mapping knowledge structure by keyword co-occurrence]]: a first look at journal papers in Technology Foresight. Scientometrics, 85(1), 65-79.
* [[:study:Elkins, M., Maher, C., Herbert, R., Moseley, A., & Sherrington, C. (2010). Correlation between the Journal Impact Factor and three other journal citation indices]]. Scientometrics, 85(1), 81-93.
* [[:study:Moehrle, M. (2010). Measures for textual patent similarities]]: a guided way to select appropriate approaches. Scientometrics, 85(1), 95-109.
* [[:study:Ohniwa, R., Hibino, A., & Takeyasu, K. (2010). Trends in research foci in life science fields over the last 30 years monitored by emerging topics]]. Scientometrics, 85(1), 111-127.
* [[:study:Parker, J., Lortie, C., & Allesina, S. (2010). Characterizing a scientific elite]]: the social characteristics of the most highly cited scientists in environmental science and ecology. Scientometrics, 85(1), 129-143.
* [[:study:Pouris, A. (2010). A scientometric assessment of the Southern Africa Development Community]]: science in the tip of Africa. Scientometrics, 85(1), 145-154.
* [[:study:Schultz, L., & Joutz, F. (2010). Methods for identifying emerging General Purpose Technologies]]: a case study of nanotechnologies. Scientometrics, 85(1), 155-170.
* [[:study:Levitt, J., & Thelwall, M. (2010). Does the higher citation of collaborative research differ from region to region]]? A case study of Economics. Scientometrics, 85(1), 171-183.
* [[:study:Prathap, G. (2010). An iCE map approach to evaluate performance and efficiency of scientific production of countries]]. Scientometrics, 85(1), 185-191.
* [[:study:Pautasso, M. (2010). Worsening file-drawer problem in the abstracts of natural, medical and social science databases]]. Scientometrics, 85(1), 193-202.
* [[:study:Franceschini, F., Maisano, D., Perotti, A., & Proto, A. (2010). Analysis of the ch-index]]: an indicator to evaluate the diffusion of scientific research output by citers. Scientometrics, 85(1), 203-217.
* [[:study:Velden, T., Haque, A., & Lagoze, C. (2010). A new approach to analyzing patterns of collaboration in co-authorship networks]]: mesoscopic analysis and interpretation. Scientometrics, 85(1), 219-242.


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