International Conference on Scientometrics & Informetrics October 16–20,2017,Wuhan·China

Call for PapersThe Organizing Committee would like to invite participants to submit to the 16th International Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics Conference that will be held in Wuhan, China （http：//www.issi2017.org）. The ISSI 2017 Conference will provide an international forum for scientists, research managers and administrators, as well as information and communication related professionals to share research and debate the advancements of informetric and scientometric theory and applica- tions. The conference is organized under the auspices of ISSI - the International Society for Informetrics and Scientometrics （http：//www.issi-society.org/）. Paper submission： https：//easychair.org/conferences/？conf=issi2017.

Providing Chinese scholars'solutions for international informetrics development--Review of Professor Qiu Junping's Informetrics:theory,methods and applications

Informetrics:theory,methods and applications records the research contents of informetrics in different periods,reveals the development motivation of"Three Metrics"to"Five Metrics",and is of great significance to the future trend of informetrics.This article reviews the research and development history of Professor Qiu Junping's team of"Three Metrics"and"Five Metrics",and analyzes and summarizes their academic influence and contribution to the field of international informetrics in combination with the chapter content,innovation,and practicality of the books.It can be seen that Informetrics:theory,methods and applications not only explains the complete research paradigm of informetrics,but also showed to the world the multi-dimensional breakthrough and innovation of Chinese informetrics research,and provided new ideas for the development of international informetrics.

Towards impact tenacity of academic institutions: A case study in Informetrics

Academic institutions are important subjects of discipline construction and knowledge production.It is crucial to study and evaluate the impact of institutions,and scientific evaluation is conducive to the development of academic institutions and the improvement of organizational efficiency.Most of the existing bibliometric indicators measure the impact of academic institutions from the perspective of citations(or variations).In this paper,we focus on a different side of their impact,namely tenacity.We conceptualize impact tenacity of academic institutions and define a series of indicators for operationalization.Besides,we implement correlation analysis and principal component analysis to explore whether the impact tenacity indicators and other bibliometric indicators are related and on the same dimension,taking informetrics as the representative discipline.We find that there was a significant negative correlation between the defined impact tenacity and number of papers,number of citations,and number of authors,and involved indicators(i.e.,impact tenacity and other involved bibliometric indicators)describe two almost orthogonal dimensions.Moreover,this paper also selects the Max Planck Society and Taiwan Applied Research Laboratories(China)as case studies,and reveals that low-tenacity and high-tenacity institutions have quite different characteristics.Based on these findings,we make some constructive suggestions for research policy makers,such as considering maintaining a high tenacity of institutions by supplementing more academic training.

从Informetrics到Decision Intelligence:呼唤知识发现研究的范式演变

《数据分析与知识发现》两年前更名,聚焦基于数据及其计算分析的知识发现研究,得到计算机、管理、经济、科技情报、社交媒体和其他相关研究领域的作者和读者大力支持,研究质量不断提高,期刊影响力得到积极肯定,特此感谢刊物的作者、审稿专家和读者,感谢支持作者研究的资助机构和研究机构。

为国际信息计量学发展提供中国学者的解决方案——评邱均平教授团队《信息计量学》英文版

《informetrics:theory,methods and applications(信息计量学:理论,方法和应用)》记录了不同时期信息计量学的研究内容,揭示了“三计学”向“五计学”的发展动因,对信息计量学的未来趋势研究具有重要意义。本文通过回顾邱均平教授团队“三计学”、“五计学”的研究发展史,结合书籍的章节内容、创新点、实用性等方面,对其在国际信息计量学领域的学术影响力以及贡献程度进行分析和总结。可以看出,《informetrics:theory,methods and applications(信息计量学:理论,方法和应用)》不仅仅阐释了信息计量学完整的研究范式,还向全世界展现了中国信息计量研究的多维度突破与创新,为国际信息计量学发展提供新思路。

The Visualization Analysis of Research Hotspot and Frontier Technology of the Smart Power Distribution and Utilization Based on the Cite Space

In order to make an intensive study of the development of smart power distribution and utilization technology in China, their research hotspots and frontier technology are selected out through combining the informatics method, and using the CiteSpace which can take keyword cooccurrence analysis and draw the visualization graph. According to this result, we can infer the development trend of smart power distribution and utilization in the future, and providing reference for the researcher whose engage in this domain. The electric related literature was collected from the CNKI database in China. Under the smart power distribution and utilization domain, we also analyze the development of the power quality and the energy internet in detail.

Evaluating journals' yearly impact with altmetric indicators

Purpose： Applying SSCI journals of library and information science （LIS） as the research sample, we explore the feasibility of measuring academic journals＇ yearly social impact by using altmetric indicators. Design/methodology/approach： Using a sample of 66 SSCI joumals in LIS published in 2013, statistics regarding journal mentions in social media and other online tools were retrieved from Altmetric.com and meanwhile citation data was also collected from JCR and Scopus. Based on the method of principal component analysis, data was analyzed for associations between the altmetric and traditional metrics to demonstrate the effect ofaltmetric indicators on measuring academic j oumals＇ yearly impact. Findings： The Spearman＇s rank correlation test results show that altmetric indicators and traditional citation counts were significantly correlated, indicating that altmetrics can be used to measure a journal＇s yearly social impact. Research limitations： The time frame of data collected from Altmetric.com may not be consistent with that of JCR and Scopus citation data. Practical implications： A new method is provided based on altmetrics for evaluating the social impact of academic journals, which can be applied to design new indicators of short-term journal impact. Originality value： In this paper, we have established a method for evaluating the social impact of academic journals based on altmetric indictors. Altmetrics can be complementary to traditional citation metrics in assessing a journal＇s impact within a year or even in a shorter period of time.

Dynamics and interactions of blog-based science communication:A case study of blogging activities in China related to 2011 Japanese seismic and nuclear power crisis

Purpose: This paper tries to understand the dynamics of scientific communication systems during crises by investigating as a case study the blogging activities that took place during the period of the 2011 earthquake and related events in Japan. Interactions between bloggers and registered users are studied quantitatively and qualitatively at Sciencenet.cn, an influential science-related blogosphere in China.Design/methodology/approach: The editors of Sciencenet.cn compiled a special issue of science blog articles under the title Analysis of the Japanese Earthquake. We developed a spider program and downloaded from this special issue the metadata about title, content,publishing time, total read count, reply count and recommendation count, and further collected information about bloggers and recommenders. We then sent a short message to the bloggers who wrote articles on these emergencies, asking for their educational and professional background.Findings: We found that knowledge reflected in the blog articles is strongly related to the educational and professional background of bloggers. Knowledge diffusion is facilitated by interactions, such as recommendations, comments and answers. Interactions via comments and recommendations are of an assortative nature: A blog article is more likelyto be commented on and recommended by those bloggers who write on the same or similar topics than by those writing on a different one. Registered users tend to give comments on articles dealing with the topic that they recommend, and vice versa.Interaction in the intersection of two or three topics is more intense than that within one topic. The impact of blog articles is also influenced by other factors, such as the reputation of the blogger and the type of information they contain.Implications and limitations: It is confirmed that studying blogs is a valid approach within informetric studies. Yet, we only studied one triple(earthquake, tsunami, nuclear disaster) event based on data originating from one Chinese blog website. More events should be studied.Originality/value: Informetric studies based on blogs are still relatively few. Using science blogs and combining comments on a triple event with the knowledge background of bloggers in China is even less common. As such this contribution enhances our knowledge on this new form of science communication activity.

An Informetric analysis of web citation in Chinese journals of Library and Information Science in recent years

This paper selects 998 articles as its data sources from four Chinese core journals in the field of Library and Information Science from 2003 to 2007.Some pertinent aspects of reference citations particularly from web resources are selected for a focused analysis and discussion.This includes primarily such items as the number of web citations,web citations per each article,the distribution of domain names of web citations and also certain aspects about the institutional and/or geographical affiliations of the author.The evolving situation of utilizing online networked academic information resources in China is the central thematic discussion of this study.The writing of this paper is augmented by the explicatory presentation of 3 graphic figures,6 tables and 18 references.