Woeginger's axiomatisation of the h-index and its relation to the g-index, the h-index and the R-index

Recently Woeginger [Woeginger, G. H. (2008-a). An axiomatic characterization for the Hirsch-index. Mathematical Social Sciences. An axiomatic analysis of Egghe's g-index. Journal of Informetrics] introduced a set of axioms for scientific impact measures. These lead to a characterization of the h-index. In this note we consider a slight generalization and check which of Woeginger's axioms are satisfied by the g-index, the h⁽²⁾-index and the R²-index.     

Humanities Collection Management-An Impressionistic/Realistic/Optimistic Appraisal of the State of the Art

In the 1970s inflation, reduced library budgets, and increased automation wrought many changes in the development of library collections. This article examines current humanities scholarship and the current situation in citation and user studies, preservation, special collections, retrospective purchasing, foreign language purchasing, collection development policies, resource sharing, collection evaluation, and the information society as they relate to humanities collection management.     

A modification of the h-index: The hm-index accounts for multi-authored manuscripts

In order to take multiple co-authorship appropriately into account, a straightforward modification of the Hirsch index was recently proposed. Fractionalised counting of the papers yields an appropriate measure which is called the h_m-index. The effect of this procedure is compared in the present work with other variants of the h-index and found to be superior to the fractionalised counting of citations and to the normalization of the h-index with the average number of authors in the h-core. Three fictitious examples for model cases and one empirical case are analysed.     

Libraries in the Aftermath of 9/11

Abstract

Libraries are a symbol of a free, democratic society. Open access to information and patron privacy allow intellectual inquiry and the creation of new knowledge. Librarians have a long tradition of protecting these liberties. In the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, concerns have been raised that the passage of the USA Patriot Act and other anti-terrorism measures threaten these liberties. Librarians need to educate staff, users, and their communities as to the impact these measures have on libraries and access to information. Policies, procedures, and guidelines need to be developed that balance the traditions of intellectual freedom and issues of national security. This article examines access to government information issues and threats to     

Surveillance/Discipline/Resistance: Carly Fiorina under the Gaze of The Wall Street Journal

This essay examines how news discourses of former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina shaped her professional persona throughout her tenure with the company. At a time when only eight out of the Fortune 500 companies had female CEOs, she was often identified as the most powerful female CEO in the United States. This high-profile position brought with it much media attention and focus on her gender, her performance, and her “visibility.” Through a Foucauldian analysis of The Wall Street Journal, I illustrate how Fiorina's public identity was shaped and disciplined through the popular press and explore the opportunities for resisting certain subject positions. This analysis reveals the complex relationships between organizations and broader social discourses that involve gendered workplaces, glass ceilings, and even the role of the visual in organizational life.     

Coverage and citation impact of oncological journals in the Web of Science and Scopus

This paper reviews a number of studies comparing Thomson Scientific’s Web of Science (WoS) and Elsevier’s Scopus. It collates their journal coverage in an important medical subfield: oncology. It is found that all WoS-covered oncological journals (n = 126) are indexed in Scopus, but that Scopus covers many more journals (an additional n = 106). However, the latter group tends to have much lower impact factors than WoS covered journals. Among the top 25% of sources with the highest impact factors in Scopus, 94% is indexed in the WoS, and for the bottom 25% only 6%. In short, in oncology the WoS is a genuine subset of Scopus, and tends to cover the best journals from it in terms of citation impact per paper. Although Scopus covers 90% more oncological journals compared to WoS, the average Scopus-based impact factor for journals indexed by both databases is only 2.6% higher than that based on WoS data. Results reflect fundamental differences in coverage policies: the WoS based on Eugene Garfield’s concepts of covering a selective set of most frequently used (cited) journals; Scopus with broad coverage, more similar to large disciplinary literature databases. The paper also found that ‘classical’, WoS-based impact factors strongly correlate with a new, Scopus-based metric, SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), one of a series of new indicators founded on earlier work by Pinski and Narin [Pinski, G., & Narin F. (1976). Citation influence for journal aggregates of scientific publications: Theory, with application to the literature of physics. Information Processing and Management, 12, 297–312] that weight citations according to the prestige of the citing journal (Spearman’s rho = 0.93). Four lines of future research are proposed.     

对NN/LM 2001-2006年合同期项目的定量分析及启示

为深入了解NN/LM的项目资助情况,文章对NN/LM网站上获得的上一五年合同期详细的项目信息进行了深入的分析,得到项目数、各区域分布特点、基金投入的分布特点等,并对基金支持的多少以及一些特殊项目进行了详细的分析.从中得到值得我国建立医学图书馆资源共享网络借鉴的经验和启示.     

因特网声像信息资源及利用

介绍了因特网网上声像信息的类型 ,并对搜索方法和音频、视频播放工具进行探讨。参考文献 5     

Weeding the Academic Business/Economics Collection

Standard weeding criteria of age of the material and last date of circulation were both applied to the same collection of business/economics material in an academic library. Eight per cent of the collection was found to be weedable based on age, and 30% was found to be weedable based on past use. The conclusion from this study was to recognize both criteria and weed only the older and little-used material.