Information and library science MPACT: A preliminary analysis

Marchionini, Gary; Solomon, Paul; Davis, Cheryl L.; Russell, Terrell

doi:10.1016/j.lisr.2006.04.001

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“…The database is primarily comprised of dissertations from the United States (94%) and Canada (3%). For more information on initial data-collection processes and the history of the MPACT Project, the reader is referred to previous MPACT publications (Marchionini, Solomon, Davis, & Russell, 2007;Sugimoto et al, 2008;Sugimoto et al, 2011;Sugimoto, Russell, & Grant, 2009). …”

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Academic genealogy as an indicator of interdisciplinarity: An examination of dissertation networks in Library and Information Science

Sugimoto

Russell

et al. 2011

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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Interdisciplinarity has been studied using cognitive connections among individuals in corresponding domains, but rarely from the perspective of academic genealogy. This article utilizes academic genealogy network data from 3,038 PhD dissertations in Library and Information Science (LIS) over a span of 80 years (1930-2009) to describe interdisciplinary changes in the discipline. Aspects of academic pedigree of advisors and committee members are analyzed, such as country, school, and discipline of highest degree, to reveal the interdisciplinary features of LIS. The results demonstrate a strong history of mentors from fields such as education and psychology, a decreasing trend of mentors with LIS degrees, and an increasing trend in mentors receiving degrees in computer science, business, and communication, among other disciplines. This work proposes and explores the use of academic genealogy as an indicator of interdisciplinarity and calls for additional research on the role of doctoral committee composition in a student's subsequent academic career.

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Section: Main Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

Academic genealogy as an indicator of interdisciplinarity: An examination of dissertation networks in Library and Information Science

Sugimoto

Russell

et al. 2011

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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“…Mentor-index is an index modeled after MPACT, which measures the mentoring impact of a faculty based on the mentoring activity data such as number of dissertations advised and number of dissertation committees served (Marchionini et al 2006). Mentor-in-…”

Section: Document-level Measuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Multi-faceted Citation Analysis for Quality Assessment of Scholarly Publications

Yang¹,

Meho²

2011

Journal of the Korean Society for information Management

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Despite the widespread use, critics claim that citation analysis has serious limitations in evaluating the research performance of scholars. First, conventional citation analysis methods yield one-dimensional and sometimes misleading evaluation as a result of not taking into account differences in citation quality, not filtering out citation noise such as self-citations, and not considering non-numeric aspects of citations such as language, culture, and time. Second, the citation database coverage of today is disjoint and incomplete, which can result in conflicting quality assessment outcomes across different data sources. This paper discuss the findings from a citation analysis study that measured the impact of scholarly publications based on the data mined from Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar, and briefly describes a work-in-progress prototype system called CiteSearch, which is designed to overcome the weaknesses of existing citation analysis methods with a robust citation-based quality assessment approach.

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“…In a preliminary study on dissertation advising impact metrics (MPACT), Marchionini, Solomon, Davis, and Russell (2006) proposed a series of metrics to assess the mentoring impact of dissertation advisors and committee members, including the number of dissertations advised (A), the number of dissertation committee memberships (C), the fractional MPACT that weighs advising and committee membership (M = A + 1/C), and the ratio of advising to committee membership (A/A + C). They stated that their study offers a new way to measure scholarly productivity.…”

Section: Dissertation Committee Membershipmentioning

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Are you an invited speaker? A bibliometric analysis of elite groups for scholarly events in bioinformatics

Jeong

Lee

Kim

2009

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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Participating in scholarly events (e.g., conferences, workshops, etc.) as an elite-group member such as an organizing committee chair or member, program committee chair or member, session chair, invited speaker, or award winner is beneficial to a researcher's career development. The objective of this study is to investigate whether elite-group membership for scholarly events is representative of scholars' prominence, and which elite group is the most prestigious. We collected data about 15 global (excluding regional) bioinformatics scholarly events held in 2007. We sampled (via stratified random sampling) participants from elite groups in each event. Then, bibliometric indicators (total citations and h index) of seven elite groups and a non-elite group, consisting of authors who submitted at least one paper to an event but were not included in any elite group, were observed using the Scopus Citation Tracker. The Kruskal-Wallis test was performed to examine the differences among the eight groups. Multiple comparison tests (Dwass, Steel, Critchlow-Fligner) were conducted as follow-up procedures. The experimental results reveal that scholars in an elite group have better performance in bibliometric indicators than do others. Among the elite groups, the invited speaker group has statistically significantly the best performance while the other elite-group types are not significantly distinguishable. From this analysis, we confirm that elite-group membership in scholarly events, at least in the field of bioinformatics, can be utilized as an alternative marker for a scholar's prominence, with invited speaker being the most important prominence indicator among the elite groups.

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Information and library science MPACT: A preliminary analysis

Cited by 13 publications

References 15 publications

Academic genealogy as an indicator of interdisciplinarity: An examination of dissertation networks in Library and Information Science

Academic genealogy as an indicator of interdisciplinarity: An examination of dissertation networks in Library and Information Science

Multi-faceted Citation Analysis for Quality Assessment of Scholarly Publications

Are you an invited speaker? A bibliometric analysis of elite groups for scholarly events in bioinformatics

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