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Citation Context Analysis of AP_Papers and Decades Profiles
No full textHere you find the Supplementary Materials to my paper "Accumulation of Knowledge in Para-Scientific Areas. The Case of Analytic Philosophy" (submitted to Scientometrics on 19 February 2018).
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Citation Context Analysis of AP_Papers and Decades Profiles
No full textHere you find the Supplementary Materials to my paper "Accumulation of Knowledge in Para-Scientific Areas. The Case of Analytic Philosophy" (submitted to Scientometrics on 19 February 2018).
You find:
- Papers' profiles
- Decades' profiles
- Sample's metadata
- WoS search histor
Bibliometrics in Press. Representations and uses of bibliometric indicators in the Italian daily newspapers
Full text linkScholars in science and technology studies and bibliometricians are increasingly revealing the performative nature of bibliometric indicators. Far from being neutral technical
measures, indicators such as the Impact Factor and the h-index are deeply transforming the
social and epistemic structures of contemporary science. At the same time, scholars have
highlighted how bibliometric indicators are endowed with social meanings that go beyond
their purely technical defnitions. These social representations of bibliometric indicators
are constructed and negotiated between diferent groups of actors within several arenas.
This study aims to investigate how bibliometric indicators are used in a context, which, so
far, has not yet been covered by researchers, that of daily newspapers. By a content analysis
of a corpus of 583 articles that appeared in four major Italian newspapers between 1990
and 2020, we chronicle the main functions that bibliometrics and bibliometric indicators
played in the Italian press. Our material shows, among other things, that the public discourse developed in newspapers creates a favorable environment for bibliometrics-centered
science policies, that bibliometric indicators contribute to the social construction of scientifc facts in the press, especially in science news related to medicine, and that professional
bibliometric expertise struggles to be represented in newspapers and hence reach the general public
Science Mapping and Science Maps
Full text linkScience maps are visual representations of the structure and dynamics of scholarly knowledge. They aim to show how fields, disci-plines, journals, scientists, publications, and scientific terms relate to each other. Science mapping is the body of methods and techniques that have been developed for generating science maps. This entry is an introduction to science maps and science mapping. It focuses on the concep-tual, theoretical, and methodological issues of science mapping, rather than on the mathematical formulation of science mapping techniques. After a brief history of science mapping, we describe the general procedure for building a science map, presenting the data sources and the methods to select, clean, and pre-process the data. Next, we examine in detail how the most common types of science maps, namely the citation-based and the term-based, are generated. Both are based on networks: the former on the network of publications connected by citations, the latter on the network of terms co-occurring in publications. We review the rationale behind these mapping approaches, as well as the techniques and methods to build the maps (from the extraction of the network to the visualization and enrichment of the map). We also present less-common types of science maps, including co-authorship networks, interlocking editorship networks, maps based on patents’ data, and geo-graphic maps of science. Moreover, we consider how time can be represented in science maps to investigate the dynamics of science. We also discuss some epistemological and sociological topics that can help in the interpretation, contextualization, and assessment of science maps. Then, we present some possible applications of science maps in science policy. In the conclusion, we point out why science mapping may be interesting for all the branches of meta-science, from knowledge organization to epistemology. © 2021, International Society for Knowledge Organization. All rights reserved
Petrovich - L&A - Supplementary Materials
No full textThis Pdf collects the Supplementary Materials for my article on acknowledgments in recent analytic philosophy, forthcoming in Logique et Analyse
A global exploratory comparison of country self-citations 1996-2019
Full text linkSelf-citations are a key topic in evaluative bibliometrics because they can
artificially inflate citation-related performance indicators. Recently,
self-citations defined at the largest scale, i.e., country self-citations, have
started to attract the attention of researchers and policymakers. According to
a recent research, in fact, the anomalous trends in the country self-citation
rates of some countries, such as Italy, have been induced by the distorting
effect of citation metrics-centered science policies. In the present study, we
investigate the trends of country self-citations in 50 countries over the world
in the period 1996-2019 using Scopus data. Results show that for most countries
country self-citations have decreased over time. 12 countries (Colombia, Egypt,
Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Malaysia, Pakistan, Romania, Russian Federation, Saudi
Arabia, Thailand, and Ukraine), however, exhibit different behavior, with
anomalous trends of self-citations. We argue that these anomalies should be
attributed to the aggressive science policies adopted by these countries in
recent years, which are all characterized by direct or indirect incentives for
citations. Our analysis confirms that when bibliometric indicators are
integrated into systems of incentives, they are capable of affecting rapidly
and visibly the citation behavior of entire countries.Comment: 44 pages, 15 figure
Normative versus strategic accounts of acknowledgment data: The case of the top-five journals of economics
No full textTwo alternative accounts can be given of the information contained in the acknowledgments of academic publications. According to the mainstream normative account the acknowledgments serve to repay debts towards formal or informal collaborators. According to the strategic account, by contrast, the acknowledgments serve to increase the perceived quality of papers by associating the authors to influential scholars. The two accounts are assessed by analyzing the acknowledgments indexed in Web of Science of 1218 articles published in the “top-five journals” of economics for the years 2015–2019. The analysis is focused on six dimensions: (i) the style of acknowledging texts, (ii) the distribution of mentions, (iii) the identity of the most mentioned acknowledgees, (iv) the shares of highly and lowly mentioned acknowledgees, (v) the hierarchy of the acknowledgment network, and (vi) the correlation at a paper level between intellectual similarity, measured by common references, and social similarity, measured by common acknowledges. Results show that the normative and the strategic account should be considered as valid but partial explanations of acknowledging behavior. Hence, acknowledgments should be used with extreme caution for investigating collaboration practices and they should not be used to produce acknowledgments-based metrics of scholars for evaluative purposes
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