My Google Scholar Citations page
I just took advantage of the opening-up of Google Scholar Citations and got my own page up . It is pretty cool to see your citations, etc. all pulled together.
Posts
"The Use And Misuse Of Bibliometric Indices In Evaluating Scholarly Performance"
Ethics In Science And Enviromental Politics Vol. 8, No. 1, Special Issue: The Use And Misuse Of Bibliometric Indices In Evaluating Scholarly Performance is an extensive set of papers on bibliometric indices. I have as yet to read them, but they look interesting and significant: Browman, H., Stergiou, K. (2008). Factors and indices are one thing, deciding who is scholarly, why they are scholarly, and the relative value of their scholarship is something else entirely. Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics, 8 , 1-3. DOI: 10.3354/esep00089 Campbell, P. (2008). Escape from the impact factor. Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics, 8 , 5-7. DOI: 10.3354/esep00078 Lawrence, P. (2008). Lost in publication: how measurement harms science. Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics, 8 , 9-11. DOI: 10.3354/esep00079 Todd, P., Ladle, R. (2008). Hidden dangers of a "citation culture". Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics, 8 , 13-16. DOI: 10.3354/esep00091 Taylor, M...
arXiv readership/citation bias examined
the scholarly kitchen has a very interesting discussion (" The importance of being first ") that looks at the various biases impacting article readership at arXiv . Based on two recent articles[ 1 , 2 ], biases introduced by the email announcement schedule (sent out at 4PM North American Eastern Time) of arXiv (geographical bias) as well author game- or evolutionary theory strategies of self-promotion ( Submit as close to 4pm so as to appear at the top of the email announcement, thus increasing readership... ) can significantly change the readership and citation rate of an article. Interesting and clearly something that needs to be reduced/taken-in-to-account/monitored at similar sites. I would be surprised if there weren't already EBay sniping-(bidding)-bot -like bots out there that can automatically submit articles to arXiv in the last 10 seconds of 4pm. [1] Dietrich, J.P. (2008). The Importance of Being First: Position Dependent Citation Rates on arXiv:astro-ph. Pub...
Canada the most efficient producer of Computer Science research papers?
A recent article[ 1 ] looks at scientific research competitiveness of world universities in computer science, examining at individual university computer science departments as well countries as aggregates of their universities. The study looks at 233 university computer science departments, 127418 published papers, 468244 citations, 1856 highly cited papers and 57 hot papers over the last 10 years using data from Thomson. The evaluation criteria are (see the paper for more details): Canada as an aggregate region came in #4 after the USA, UK, Germany, followed by Italy. Canada had the third highest paper production, citations, and "hot" papers! For individual universities, only one Canadian university is in the top 23, with University of Toronto coming in at 16th . You can see the top 23 universities listed below: Stanford MIT UC Berkeley U Texas U Illinois Carnegie Mellon UCSD Georgia Inst Technol U Maryland Eth Zurich Technion Israel Inst Technol Princeton U Washingto...