Scientometrics, Knowledge Management, and Social Network Analysis

Schubert A, Braun T, Small H, Sweeney E, and Narin F. Four out of the five authors were the recipient of Derek John de Solla Price award. Sweeney E is the only anomaly, and I couldn’t find information about him either. So, if you know about him, please leave a comment.

The following information about the other four authors are taken from the ISSI website.

Schubert A – András Schubert (Hungary) received the award in 1993. He is Senior Scientist at the Institute for Science Policy Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest (Hungary). and also the Editor of the journal Scientometrics.

Braun T – Tibor Braun (Hungary) received the award in 1986. He is director of the Information Science and Scientometric Research Unit (ISSRU) at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is also Professor of Chemistry at the Loránd Eötvös University. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Scientometrics since its first appearance in 1978.

Small H – Henry Small (USA) received the award in 1987 together with Vasily V. Nalimov. He is Chief Scientist and Director of Research Service Group at Thomson ISI. Henry Small received several Awards including the JASIS Best Paper Award in 1987, and in 1998, the Award of Merit from the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIST). He has been named the sixth President of ISSI for the period of four years in 2003.

Narin F – Francis Narin (USA) received the award in 1988. He established CHI in 1968, an internationally recognized research consultancy specializing in developing evaluation tools and indicators for science and technology analysis. Narin is recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on science and technology analysis. He started with the analysis of science in the 1970s, before developing evaluations of patents in the 1980s and later, in the 1990s, analyzing linkage between science and technology.

So, that’s about some of the top scientometricians.

In relation to my previous post, I found out that Olle Persson has written an article ‘A bibliometric view of Scientometrics‘ using the data until 1999, which also listed the top cited publication in Scientometrics.

First, I need to clarify that the Scientometrics mentioned above is the journal Scientometrics, not scientometrics as a discipline.

This information was retrieved using the ISI Web of Knowledge on October 4, 2007.

1. Schubert A, Glanzel W, Braun T
   Scientometric Datafiles – A Comprehensive Set Of Indicators On 2649 Journals And 96 Countries In All Major Science Fields And Subfields 1981-1985
   Scientometrics 16 (1-6): 3-& Jun 1989
   Times Cited: 131
2. Schubert A, Braun T
   Relative Indicators And Relational Charts For Comparative-Assessment Of Publication Output And Citation Impact
   Scientometrics 9 (5-6): 281-291 May 1986
   Times Cited: 87
3. Pavitt K
   Patent Statistics As Indicators Of Innovative Activities – Possibilities And Problems
   Scientometrics 7 (1-2): 77-99 1985
   Times Cited: 84
4. Small H, Sweeney E, Greenlee E
   Clustering The Science Citation Index Using Co-Citations .2. Mapping Science
   Scientometrics 8 (5-6): 321-340 1985
   Times Cited: 79
5. Small H, Sweeney E
   Clustering The Science Citation Index Using Co-Citations .1. A Comparison Of Methods
   Scientometrics 7 (3-6): 391-409 1985
   Times Cited: 78
6. Narin F, Noma E
   Is Technology Becoming Science
   Scientometrics 7 (3-6): 369-381 1985
   Times Cited: 72
7. Schubert A, Braun T
   International Collaboration In The Sciences, 1981-1985
   Scientometrics 19 (1-2): 3-10 Jul 1990
   Times Cited: 63
8. Narin F, Stevens K, Whitlow Es
   Scientific Cooperation In Europe And The Citation Of Multinationally Authored Papers
   Scientometrics 21 (3): 313-323 Jul-Aug 1991
   Times Cited: 62
9. Bjorneborn L, Ingwersen P
   Perspectives Of Webometrics
   Scientometrics 50 (1): 65-82 Jan 2001
   Times Cited: 61
10. Moed Hf, Debruin Re, Vanleeuwen Tn
    New Bibliometric Tools For The Assessment Of National Research Performance – Database Description, Overview Of Indicators And First Applications
    Scientometrics 33 (3): 381-422 Jul-Aug 1995
    Times Cited: 61

Six of the 10 most cited publication were published in the 1980s, three in the 1990s, and only one which was published in the 2000s.

Schubert A, Braun T, Small H, Sweeney E, and Narin F published more than one top 10 most cited publication in Scientometrics.

The next entry will be devoted to introduce the 5 ‘Scientometrician’.

I am just curious why Eugene Garfield did not publish in Scientometrics?