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Evaluative Informetrics: The Art of Metrics-Based Research Assessment: Festschrift in Honour of Henk F. Moed
Full text linkWe intend to edit a Festschrift for Henk Moed combining a “best of” collection of his papers and new contributions (original research papers) by authors having worked and collaborated with him. The outcome of this original combination aims to provide an overview of the advancement of the field in the intersection of bibliometrics, informetrics, science studies and research assessment
Selected essays of Henk F. Moed
No full textThis part presents a collection of the most important publications by Henk F. Moed. This collection characterises the author as a researcher personality with a broad spectrum of activities and a multifaceted research profile. As Henk Moed has contributed to the advancement of the field in many topics, an overview of the development of his career is, to a considerable extent, also a survey of the research field. We grouped his publications into seven topics in the field at the intersection of bibliometrics, informetrics, science studies and research assessment. The main topics are the following
Tracing the Art of Metrics-Based Research Assessment Through Henk Moed’s Work
No full textThe title of the editorial introduction summarises the main objective of this book. During the ISSI2019 Conference held at the Sapienza University of Rome, on 5 September 2019, we organised a Special Plenary Session in honour of our colleague and friend Prof. Henk F. Moed to celebrate his retirement
Grand challenges in data integration—state of the art and future perspectives: an introduction
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Knowledge networks from patent data: methodological issues and research targets
No full textThe application of patent citation analysis to the study of knowledge diffusion has not yet reached firm conclusions. Controversy still flourish on whether the interpretation of citations as ‘paper trails’ left by interpersonal knowledge flow is legitimate.
In this paper we have stressed that much of the debate depends on the popularity and the peculiarities of the US patent system, whose limitations may not affect the European one. In particular, many efforts placed on distinguishing between inventors’ and examiners’ citations are pointless when using EPO data. We have also stressed how the same efforts can indeed be judged excessive for the purpose of using USPO data, as long as one recognizes that knowledge of the technical contents of a patent may travel independently from information on the existence of that patent, or from exact references to the relevant documents.
Social network analysis can be more decisive, for at least three reasons. First and foremost, because it recognizes that information may travel from inventor to inventor not only directly, but also indirectly, via complex social chains. Second, because inventors, at least in R&D and patent intensive fields, may well represent a ‘community of experts’, that is a meaningful unit of analysis. Third, because a methodology has emerged from the recent literature, which allows us to test the influence of social distance on citation probabilities. When applied to EPO data, that methodology confirms that short social chains of inventors are indeed more likely to generate citations than unconnected inventors
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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