7/25/24: Updates and readings on Turing Award and h-index, etc.

Bibliometrics - (1) from biblio- = book; metrics = measurements. Relatively fine-grained measurements about publications, authors, etc.  (2) from bibliome = complete corpus of biological texts; metrics = measurements. Relatively large-grained measurements about complete text corpora.

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• This log is at: http://bibliometriks.blogspot.com.
  
• Updates: 
• NM - working on learning and using Python along with calling SQL from Python.
• TO - 
• Method 1: treat each year as a discrete time step as items propagate through the queuing network. 
• Method 2: deal with a degenerate model where the "queues" are always of zero length because a citation is serviced at the instant it arrives/exists. 
• Method 3: a citation arrives on a queue when the citation is made. It is "serviced" when the citing paper is itself cited. Where does that lead?
• Other considerations: 
• What about not counting self citations? 
• What about citation circles (self citing plus transitivity)?
• Recall the Lipsky queuing theory book (H): https://www.abebooks.com/9788132204770/Queueing-Theory-Linear-Algebraic-Approach-8132204778/plp?ref_=ps_ms_267691761&cm_mmc=msn-_-comus_dsa-_-naa-_-naa&msclkid=c28ce203cdbc1cc1531e8493dde7ac0c
• Currently looking into a EdX(?) course on queuing theory, for background.
  
• Discuss: Turing Award winners don't necessarily have high h-indexes; https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/447802/1/Turing_Award_elites_revisited_patterns_of_productivity_collaboration_authorship_and_impact.pdf
• R&D (read & discuss): h-index related section from H. Berghel, "A Collapsing Academy V: Internal and External Threat Vectors Facing Higher Education" in Computer, vol. 57, no. 07, pp. 166-172, 2024. doi: 10.1109/MC.2024.3395110, https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/co/2024/07/10574411/1Y7B5R4jp3q. We read up to: "The h-index is widely used by popular..." and can start there next time we read from this.

The meeting ended here.

• R&D (read & discuss): Meho, L.; Akl, E. Using Bibliometrics to Detect Unconventional Authorship Practices and Examine Their Impact on Global Research Metrics, 2019-2023. Preprints 2024, 2024070691. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.0691.v1. We finished the abstract.