Bibliometrika

Bibliometrics - (1) from biblio- = book; metrics = measurements . Measurements of publications, authors, etc. (2) from bibliome = complete corpus of biological texts; metrics = measurements. Measurements of text corpora.   Agenda and Minutes To find this page go to: https://bibliometriks.blogspot.com (then click a " READ MORE " link) Short meeting today; DB will read MB's draft and TT will continue working on his section. Instead of having a long meeting, we will spend the time on those things. MB has sent a draft of the data collection section. DB needs to read and comment as needed. TT is drafting the data analysis section. Consider things like author order, last author only, accounting for alphabetical order which could indicate order of contribution or indicate equal contribution (take the midpoint? ... based on the interval midpoint general strategy), interval max strategy, interval min strategy, midpoint vs. geometric mean vs. square proportionality hypothes...

Bibliometrics - (1) from biblio- = book; metrics = measurements . Measurements of publications, authors, etc. (2) from bibliome = complete corpus of biological texts; metrics = measurements. Measurements of text corpora.   Agenda and Minutes To find this page go to: https://bibliometriks.blogspot.com (then click a " READ MORE " link) MB will draft the data collection section. TT will draft the data analysis section. Consider things like author order, last author only, accounting for alphabetical order which could indicate order of contribution or indicate equal contribution (take the midpoint? ... based on the interval midpoint general strategy), interval max strategy, interval min strategy, midpoint vs. geometric mean vs. square proportionality hypothesis, .... There's the whole issue of differences among fields, different meanings for author order among different fields, ....  IRB application must include all of our current CITI score sheets attached.  Othe...

Bibliometrics - (1) from biblio- = book; metrics = measurements . Measurements of publications, authors, etc. (2) from bibliome = complete corpus of biological texts; metrics = measurements. Measurements of text corpora.   Agenda and Minutes To find this page go to: https://bibliometriks.blogspot.com (then click a " READ MORE " link) We discussed Jain and Chandra (2025), https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.18236. Conclusions:  Equates last and first authorship - an apples and oranges problem that should be handled with *different* metrics, not one metric that confuses apples and oranges. Crediting function is qualitatively "reasonable" at least for some fields but quantitatively it is quite arbitrary. This is a key problem from our perspective. Intervals can do it in a more principled way. 2nd-to-last author looks like 2nd author - seems rarely reasonable.  Another relevant article suggested by TT:  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ejn.70464 . The...

Bibliometrics - (1) from biblio- = book; metrics = measurements . Measurements of publications, authors, etc. (2) from bibliome = complete corpus of biological texts; metrics = measurements. Measurements of text corpora.   Agenda and Minutes To find this page go to: https://bibliometriks.blogspot.com (then click a " READ MORE " link) We discussed the issues and then started reading Jain and Chandra (2025), https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.18236. We finished the abstract and can start after that next time.

Bibliometrics - (1) from biblio- = book; metrics = measurements . Measurements of publications, authors, etc. (2) from bibliome = complete corpus of biological texts; metrics = measurements. Measurements of text corpora.  Agenda and Minutes To find this page go to: https://bibliometriks.blogspot.com (then click a " READ MORE " link) Today DB, MB, TT reviewed the problem and the solution approach of apportioning cites among multiple authors using normalized interval midpoints. MB: has identified a review paper to work from. Built some calculating functionality. Problem with some papers having large numbers of authors (like 100). TT: Considering questions involving comparing fields... also need to critically compare the method with related methods at some point... and other problems.  If an article is identified that we can read together, we will do that as well. 

Bibliometrics - (1) from biblio- = book; metrics = measurements . Measurements of publications, authors, etc. (2) from bibliome = complete corpus of biological texts; metrics = measurements. Measurements of text corpora.  Agenda and Minutes To find this page go to: https://bibliometriks.blogspot.com (then click a " READ MORE " link) TO: Today: Suggests dropping queuing theory and focusing for now on the h-index issue. DB suggests queuing theory could be an interesting chapter later, but we can see later. Note that you can try different indexes, see what they say, critique them, and then try another one. We are *not* looking for the one perfect index, because it does not exist! Has identified a paper that models h-index stochastically. Would be a good starting point for a queuing model. We need to read that paper! He will send me a copy and we can start reading it during meetings. TO can help guide us as we ...