8/8/24 (#5)

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:
  • Future meeting scheduling - TO not here Aug. 8, HB Aug. 22.
  • NM - Working on learning and using Python along with calling SQL from Python. Google Scholar is making some mistakes, so we discussed handling that. Has about 125 people analyzed, across several domains and subdomains, 5 people per subdomain.
    
  • TO - see https://bibliometriks.blogspot.com/p/to.html for current status.
  • Readings discussed - see https://bibliometriks.blogspot.com/p/readings-discussed.html
    
• 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. We read the Hirsh quote today.
  
• 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.