A combination of powerpoint presentations on bibliometrics in higher education, originally presented at (CONCERT) Council on Core Electronic Resources in Taiwan, November 2008 and modified for a paper on bibliometrics and university rankings. http://ir.library.smu.edu.sg/record=d1010558

1. Bibliometrics From “Bean Counting” to Academic Accountability Taiwan Ruth A Pagell 13 November 2008 Revised 24 November 2008 for Research Council

5. Pre-Digital Citation Indices Freud S Vol Pg YR 53 Interpretation Dream Eagle M Br J Med PS 70 217 97

6. From Garfield’s Vision to 21 st century Capability ” Garfield (1970) Nature Pilkington, A and Meredith, J (2008) J of Op Mgmt (in press)

7. Social Networking – ISI Mapping WOS, 4 November, 2008

10. HEEACT

11. SMU’s Research Strategy Vision To be a premier university, internationally recognised for its world class research and distinguished teaching. Mission To create and disseminate knowledge. SMU aspires to generate leading edge research with global impact…

18. Tracking Articles on Bibliometrics and Citation Analysis in WOS and SCOPUS WOS SCOPUS 1 st year bibliometrics 1969 1972 1 st year citation analysis 1965 1935

25. Average Citation Rates for papers published by field, 1998-2008 Essential Science Indicators 24.54 3.90 21.95 37.09 45.63 Molecular Biology/Genetics 2.95 .47 2.72 4.29 5.65 Mathematics 11.61 1.97 11.15 17.16 20.10 Clinical Medicine 3.99 .58 3.89 5.98 7.37 Social Science, general 9.52 1.22 8.73 14.80 17.75 Psychiatry/Psychology 4.91 .55 4.33 7.21 9.98 Econ & business 3.00 .53 2.44 5.75 6.97 Computer Science 9.56 1.60 8.94 14.43 17.27 All Fields All Years 2007 2004 2001 1998 Fields

29. Comparison of WOS and SCOPUS by Numbers From Peter Jacso talk at WOS users group meeting 8/2008 Appx 17000 Over 10,000 Number of journals ( RAP ) [32000 journals] Just added >600 Asia-Pacific Journals ( WOS) 3% 21% % non-Science (J) 34.6 million 40.5 million Unique articles 350 million 700 million Cited references Cited references from 1996; adding back Depends on subscription Date range SCOPUS WOS

31. Web Of Science Analysis of SMU 13 2.3 964 417 ALL 1 .58 7 12 ‘ 98 A&H 11 2.07 575 278 ‘ 80 SSCI 11 2.8 595 210 ’ 00 SCI H Index Cites/ Article Cites Articles Yr DB 28 8 8 7 Lecture Notes in Comp Econ Letters J Applied Psych J of Banking & Finance Source Title 90 60 53 46 Economics Management Ops Research/Mgt Sci Comp Sci/Info Sys 24-11/2008 Subject Count CATEGORY

33. SCOPUS Affiliation SMU 38 10 9 8 8 Lecture Notes in Comp Human Systems Mgmt J of Banking & Finance Economic Letters J of Applied Finance Source Title 189 162 157 Computer Science Economics and Finance Bus, Mgmt, Acctg 24/11/08 Subject CATEGORY 1 2 4 A & H 15 1349 690 ALL 12 950 390 Social Sci 12 702 323 All Science H Index Cites Articles Category

39. Ruth’s Evaluation of Google Scholar Notes: Add-ons Name Identity Citations Quality’ Who uses Time Coverage Access INCLUDES: Guides, Notes, Syllabi, non-reviewed articles; best for young authors; individual use with extensive data cleansing No affiliation searching EXCLUDES cites from publications not covered within SCOPUS content INCLUDES Analysis for author, article, journal, institution EXCLUDES in General Search: Books, book chapters, theses, working papers, conference papers, reports INCLUDES Analysis for article, author, journal, etc Harzing’s Publish or Perish Analysis tools Analysis tools; ESI, JCR No authority; no way to deal with common names Building Name Authority Automatically- needs clean-up Building Name Authority Self Register Not stated; web harvesting Only SCOPUS citations Citations included from non- WOS journals in cited references No authority Times Higher Education The standard source; Governments, Research Institutions Anyone Scientific institutions; Top Tier institutions Not stated 1996 for citations Varies by subscription (1900-) Generally articles 17000 selected scholarly journals, conference proceedings >10000 selected scholarly journals Free Subscription Subscription GOOGLE SCHOLAR ELSEVIER SCOPUS WOS

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49. Journal Impact Factor J Biomed Sci 2007 JCR 2007 4.7 72 2.024 1379 J Biomed Sci Cited Half Life Articles Impact Factor Total Cites Journal Title

50. JCR Metrics

51. Journal Impact Factor Comparing Categories 156 5.60 2.98 CELL BIOLOGY ( Cell 29.887) 191 .99 .65 ECONOMICS ( J of Political Economy 4.190) 100 1.23 .87 LAW ( Harvard Law Review 5.859) # of Journals Avg Median JCR Subject Category

54. New Metrics – H Index Using Harzing Publish or Perish 5 yrs; Comp Sci (can’t identify) * 5 3 E >35 yrs; Bus and Intl Relations 11 1 3 D >25 yrs; LIS 5 2 4 C 10 yrs; Operations Mgmt 10 7 5 B >30 yrs; Econ 13 4 12 A Ruth’s notes GS * SCOPUS ISI WOS (general search) Author

57. Case Study New university Research Metrics Refereed Publications by Standing Faculty Citation Count Total Number of Publications Research Active Faculty Research Categories By School By Rank (i.e. Asst Prof) By Tenure or Teaching ISSUES: Quality vs Quantity Legacy citations from senior faculty/ visiting faculty

58. Case Study 19000 16000 14000 Total Citation Count +14% 1.5 1.5 1 Referred publication/FTF +50% 3.00 2.75 3.33 Publications /FTF -17 % 1200 950 1000 Total # of publications - 5% 400 340 300 # Full time faculty (FTF) FY3 Target FY 2 FY 1 INDICATOR TREND

59. Case Study 8% 76 Books, chapters Percent Number Publication by Type 6% 56 Misc 21% 200 Working Paper 25% 238 Scholarly Journal 40% 380 Conference Paper

64. Comparative World University Rankings Using Bibliometrics Columbia UC – San Diego Oxford MIT UC – San Francisco Univ Chicago Univ Chicago MIT Princeton Univ Col London ( H20) Univ Michigan Columbia Imperial Col London ( H27) UC– Berkeley Cal Inst Tech Cal Inst Tech UCLA MIT Oxford Univ Washington Cambridge Cambridge Stanford U C – Berkeley Yale Johns Hopkins Stanford Harvard Harvard Harvard THE-QS ( 20% bibliometrics) HEEACT (100% bibliometrics) SHANGHAI Jiao Tong ( 40% bibliometrics)

65. Comparative Asian* Rankings Using Bibliometrics Tsinghua (15 Ntl Taiwan U) Tokyo Inst Tech Ntl Univ Taiwan ( 152-200 World; 17-22 Asia-Pac) Seoul Ntl Univ Ntl Univ Taiwan (141 World; 15 A-P) Hokaido Peking U Kyushu Tokyo Inst Tech Osaka Nagoya Ntl Univ Singapore Chinese U (HK) Ntl Univ Singapore Nagoya HKUST Seoul Ntl Univ Kyushu Ntl Univ Singapore Tohoku Tohoku Univ Hong Kong Osaka Osaka Kyoto Kyoto Kyoto U Tokyo Tokyo Tokyo THE – QS (no A-P list) *taken from general list HEEACT * without Australia, Israel Shanghai Jioa Tong - without* Australia, Israel

67. Country Bibliometric % of Selected Asian Country Articles

68. Growth of Asian Articles is WOS 1900/1980 91 to 2000 01 to 08 to 1990 % Change among decades 10999.7 838 19892 1716 3523 1900 - 1980 10740.3 10652.4 8686,6 WOS ‘000 141452 77336 8931 Korea 51392 45089 33815 N Z 51617 23027 5832 S’pore 132374 73881 14819 Taiwan 01-08 90-20’ 81-90

69. Country Metrics Leading Subjects in Taiwan Searched on WOS September 2008 3.48 713 Optics 1.14 234 Plant Sci 6.84 1403 Materials Science 8.32 1706 Physics 11.11 2279 Electrical Eng % Output # 2007 6.25 36 Political Science 6.25 36 Pharmacology 6.25 36 Intl Relations 6.42 37 Plant Science % Output # 1980

70. scienceWATCH Science in Taiwan 2002-2006 ScienceWATCH April 2008 1 % cites 1.69 ALL Papers +1 1.31 Agricultural Sci -21 2.38 Physics -9 3.35 Materials Sci -22 3.96 Engineering Relative Cites Impact to World % Papers from TAIWAN Field

72. Using Papers and Citations to Track Specific Topics

73. Country Metrics Subject Area: Computer Science for 2007 http://www.scimagojr.com Data Source: Scopus® 75 0,14 142 354 2484 2572 Australia 12 69 0.08 150 292 3352 3436 Taiwan 11 71 0.12 237 443 3580 3679 Spain 10 109 0.14 383 768 5333 5508 Germany 4 121 0.15 461 991 6202 6468 UK 3 267 0.18 1620 3176 16519 17277 USA 2 74 0.04 601 858 19686 19792 China 1 H Index Cites/Doc Self Cites Cites Citable Docs Docu-ments Country

75. Downloads from ACM Portal

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80. 21 st Century Approach http://www.webometrics.info/top100_continent.asp?cont=asia Cybermetrics Lab, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientifices, Spain