Tentative Schedule (Fall 2013)

September 10

• Introduction
• Readings:
• White, H. (2010). Citation Analysis. In Bates, M.J. (Ed). Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science (pp. 1012-1026). CRC Press.
  
• Gorraiz, J., Gumpenberger, C., & Mayer, W. (2010). Bibliometric practices and activities at the University of Vienna.

September 17

• Foundations of citation analysis
• Readings:
• Smith, L. C. (1981). Citation analysis. Library Trends, 30, 83-106.
• Borgman, C.L., & Furner, J. (2002). Scholarly Communication and Bibliometrics. ARIST, 36, 3-72.
• Optional further readings:
• Cronin, B. (1984). The Citation Process: The Role and Significance of Citations in Scientific Communication. London: Taylor Graham.
  

September 24

• Citation analysis and information retrieval
  
• Readings:
  • Eugene Garfield's two Science papers on citation indexes.
  • Garfield, E. (1955). Citation Indexes for Science: A New Dimension in Documentation through Association of Ideas. Science, 122, 108-111.
    
  • Garfield, E. (1964). Science citation index: A new dimension in indexing. Science, 144, 649-654.
    
  • Moed, H.F. (2010). Citation analysis in research evaluation. Springer. - chapters 6, 7 & 8. (ebook access through U of A libraries)
  • Optional further readings:
    
  • Garfield, E. (1983). Citation Indexing, Its Theory and Application in Science, Technology, and Humanities, ISBN-10: 0894950258, ISBN-13: 978-0894950254.
    
  • McVeigh, M.E. (2010). Citation indexes and the Web of Science. In Bates, M.J. (Ed). Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science (pp. 1027-1037). CRC Press.

October 1

• Citation analysis and information retrieval - ctd.
  
• Readings:
  • Harzing, A. (2008). Google Scholar - A new data source for citation analysis. Publish or Perish.
    
  • Documentation and tutorials provided by citation databases - How do these databases compare as tools for information retrieval and for citation analysis?
    
  • Web of Science (Help, Training)
  • Scopus (User Guide)
    
  • Google Scholar
  • Optional further reading:
    
  • Google PageRank

October 8

• Assessment of research performance or library resources
  
• Readings:
  • Moed, H.F. (2010). Citation analysis in research evaluation. Springer. - Chapters 1, 2, 4 &  5. (ebook access through U of A libraries)
  • Optional further readings:
    
  • Hirsch, J.E. (2005). An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output.
  • Garfield, E. (1972). Citation analysis as a tool in journal evaluation, Science,178(4060), 471-479.
  • Narin, F. (1976). Evaluative bibliometrics: The use of publication and citation analysis in the evaluation of scientific activity.
    
  • Halpin, J.H. (1983). Citation analysis as the basis for journal collection management by academic libraries.  (1 copy available at University of Alberta Rutherford-Humanities & Social Science library)
    

October 15

• Assessment of research performance or library resources - ctd.
  
• Readings
• Moed, H.F. (2010). Citation analysis in research evaluation. Springer. - chapters 9 - 11
• Harzing, A. (2008). Reflections on the h-index.
• Publish or Perish
• Optional further reading: London School of Economics "Research Impacts" Handbook
  

October 22

• Mapping research fields
  
• Readings:
• Small, H. (1973). Cocitation in the scientific literature: A new measure of the relationship between two documents. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 24, 265-269. (e-Journal access through UofA libraries)
  
• White, H. D. & Griffith, B.C. (1981). Author cocitation: A literature measure of intellectual structure. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 32, 163-171.
  
• Zhao, D., & Strotmann, A. (2008). Evolution of research activities and intellectual influences in Information Science 1996-2005: Introducing author bibliographic coupling analysis. Journal of The American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59(13), 2070-2086.

October 29

• Mapping research fields - ctd.
  
• Readings:
• White, H. D. & McCain, K.W. (1998). Visualizing a discipline: An author co-citation analysis of information science, 1972-1995. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 49, 327-355.
• McCain, K. W. (1990). Mapping authors in intellectual space: a technical overview. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 41, 433-443.
• Cobo, M.J., et al. (2011). Science mapping software tools: Review, analysis, and cooperative study among tools. Journal of The American Society for Information Science and Technology, 62(7), 1382-1402.
• Tools: Explore publically available tools for science mapping (choose one; Download, install and play with the program to learn how to use it for science mapping):
  
• Pajek - program for large network analysis
• CiteSpace
• VOSViewer
• Leydesdorff's software
• Science of Science tool

November 5

• No class - Instructor attending the ASIST conference

November 12

• No class - The University's Fall term class break
  
• Assignment Due: Major paper topic

November 19

• Citation analysis and the diffusion of ideas
  
• Readings:
• Small, H. (1978). Cited documents as concept symbols. Social Strudies of Science, 8, 327-340.
• Sarafoglou, N., & Paelink, J.H.P. (2008). On diffusion of ideas in the academic world, the case of spatial econometrics. Annals of Regional Science, 42, 487-500.
• O'Rand, A.M. (1992). Mathematizing social science in the 1950s: The early development and diffusion of game theory. History of Political Economy, 24, 177-204.
  
• Optional further reading: Swanson, D.R. (1986). Two medical literatures that are logically but not bibliographically connected. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 38(4), 228 - 233.
• Tool: HistCite
• Assignment due: Citation analysis for reference questions or for collection management

November 26

• Assessment of innovation - Patent analysis 
• Analysis of Web links and the social Web
• Problems of citation analysis
  
• Readings:
• Garfield, E. (1979). Is citation analysis a legitimate evaluation tool?, Scientometrics, 1(4), 359-375
• MacRoberts, M.H., & MacRoberts, B.R. (1989). Problems of citation analysis: A critical review. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 40, 342-349.
• White, H. D. (1990). Author co-citation analysis: Overview and defense. In C. L. Borgman (ed.), Scholarly communication and bibliometrics (pp. 84-106). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
• Optional further readings:
• Moed, H.F. (2010). Citation analysis in research evaluation. Springer. - chapters 12 - 14
• Small, H. (1999). Visualizing science by citation mapping. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 50, 799-813.
  
• Zhao, D., & Strotmann, A. (2011). Counting first, last, or all authors in citation analysis: A comprehensive comparison in the highly collaborative Stem Cell research field. Journal of The American Society for Information Science and Technology, 62(4),654-676.
  

December 3

• Class conference
  
• Assignment Due: Student presentations on major papers
  
• Written major paper due: December 4.