1. Guide to exercise 9 Bibliometric searching
Dialog search on author and paper citations
Harzing’s Publish or Perish software
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2. Exercise
1. Dialog search
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3. Dialog search questions:
For author Tefko Saracevic
How many articles in citation databases?
How many citations to these articles - with and without self-citations?
How many citations for a study published in JASIST in a series of three parts article?:
Saracevic, T., Kantor. P., Chamis, A. Y., & Trivison, D. (1988). A study of information seeking and retrieving. I. Background and methodology. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 39 (3),
Saracevic, T., Kantor. P. (1988) A study of information seeking and retrieving. II. Users, questions and effectiveness. III. Searchers, searches and overlap. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 39 (3),
Saracevic, T., Kantor. P. (1988) A study of information seeking and retrieving. III. Searchers, searches and overlap. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 39 (3),
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4. Questions for you What was done and why in each numbered command?
What was obtained in each numbered result?
numbers are indicated as:
You can record the answers in a table provided at the end or you can create one of your own n
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5. Start of question 1 1 2 3 4
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6. Explanation For selection of E2 AU= Saracevi. T
note the period after the eigth letter
You cannot find it in any explanation, but after checking I found that it is a legacy carryover:
when Citation Indexes started at ISI they limited author names to eight letters; for longer ones they added a period to indicate that there is more. This was done because originally the input was on 80 column punched cards and a lot of stuff had to be squeezed in 80 columns
I checked and all six articles there are indeed by me for papers written between So papers published before 1974 have abbreviated authors’ names if they are longer than eight letter
vagaries of databases ….
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7. Results question 1 5 6 7
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8. Question 2 – but continuing the same search8 9 10
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9. Explanation for multiple selections of expand
As you noted I selected E3, 9, 11, and 12
Reason – references tend to be messy:
name Saracevic was spelled in different ways when included in references
under E3 there were 13 articles citing Saracevic (no initial) – I checked, indeed they are all to the right Saracevic, so I included them
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10. Question 2 … 11 12 13 14
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11. Results for question 2 15
What do results for S1, S2, S3, S4, and S5 mean?
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12. Question 3 – new search, same databases16 17 18
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13. Question 3 some explanations
A lot of authors make mistakes and wrongly cite given articles (not only author names) - practice is widespread
thus I selected all citations, correctly and wrongly cited, for the three articles - e8 to e18 – I examined the selection later & oooops I also made a mistake
Citation databases cannot and do not make corrections – they take citations as found in articles
Here is an example of a wrongly cited article:
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14. Results for question 3 19 20 21 What do results for S1 and S2 mean?
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15. Answers could be put in this table (copy/paste to Word) or you can create one of your own
Name:
No.
Your analysis 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
Comments:
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16. 2. Publish or Perish (PoP) software
Free download
2. Publish or Perish (PoP) software
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17. Harzing’s Publish or Perish – free software
Software for citation analysis of authors & journals in Google Scholar
provided by Anne-Wil Harzing, Professor in International Management at the University of Melbourne, Australia -
explanation about software with caveats at
Download from:
Windows and Linux versions available
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18. Download page – Windows http://www.harzing.com/pop.htm
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19. Opening screen
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20. Example for an author
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21. Caveats Results from Google Scholar are inflated
coverage not clear what papers included
could be even class bibliographies
sometimes ghost citations counted
a paper did NOT include a citation but counted as if it did
e.g. I did not publish 309 papers (although I wish…)
I do not have 4166 citations (although I wish …)
Different ways an author name is entered produce different results
e.g. for Tefko Saracevic & T Saracevic gets different results
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