RECOMMENDED READINGS FOR THE NORDIC PHD-COURSE

 

The first 48 titles were suggested by Wolfgang Glänzel:

 

I. FUNDAMENTAL WORKS

1.         Price, D. de Solla 1961, Science since Babylon, Yale Univ. Press, New Haven.

2.         Price, D. de Solla 1963, Little Science, Big Science, Columbia Univ. Press, New York.

3.         Pritchard, A. 1969, Statistical bibliography or bibliometrics? Journal of Documentation 24, 348-349.

4.         van Raan, A.F.J. (Ed.) 1988, Handbook of Quantitative Studies of Science and Technology, North-Holland, Amsterdam.

5.      Ziman, J. 1984, An Introduction to Science Studies - The Philosophical and Social Aspects of Science and Technology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

 

II. BIBLIOMETRIC METHODS DEVELOPED FOR SCIENCE STUDIES

6.         Callon, M., Courtial, J.P., Turner, W.A. and Bauin, S. 1983, From translations to problematic networks: An introduction to co-word analysis, Social Science Information 22, 191-235.

7.      Carpenter, M. P. and Narin, F. 1981, The adequacy of the Science Citation Index (SCI) as an indicator of international scientific activity, Journal of the American Society for Information Science 32, 430-439.

8.      Garfield, E. and Welljams-Dorof, A. 1992, Citation data: their use as quantitative indicators for science and technology evaluation and policy-making, Science and Public Policy 19, 321-327.

9.      Glänzel, W. and Czerwon, H.J. 1996, A new methodological approach to bibliographic coupling and its application to the national, regional and institutional level, Scientometrics 37, 195-221.

10.  Glänzel, W., Schubert, A., Czerwon, H. J., An Item-by-item Subject Classification of Papers Published in Multidisciplinary and General Journals Using Reference Analysis, Scientometrics, 44, 1999, 427‑439.

11.  Hicks, D. 1987, Limitations of co-citation analysis as a tools for science policy, Social Studies of Science, 17, 295-316.

12.  Irvine, J. and Martin, B. R. 1989, International comparisons of scientific performance revisited, Scientometrics 15, 369-392.

13.  Moed, H.F., de Bruin, R. E. and van Leeuwen, Th. N. 1995, New bibliometric tools for the assessment of national research performance: Database description, overview of indicators and first applications, Scientometrics  33, 381-422.

14.  Schubert, A. and Braun, T. 1986, Relative indicators and relational charts for comparative assessment of publication output and citation impact, Scientometrics  9, 281-291.

15.  Schubert, A. and Braun, T. 1992, Standards for citation based assessments, Scientometrics  26, 21-35.

16.     Small, H.G. 1973, Co-citation in scientific literature. A new measure for the relationship between publications. JASIS, 24, 265-269.

17.     Small, H.G. and Griffith, B. C. 1974, The structure of scientific literatures I: Identifying and graphing specialities, Science Studies 4, 17-40.

 

III. SELECTED COMPARATIVE STUDIES BASED ON SCIENCE INDICATORS

18.  Glänzel, W. 1996, Scientometric Indicators Datafiles. A bibliometric approach to social sciences. National research performances in 6 selected social science areas, 1990-1992, Scientometrics, 35, 291-307

19.  Martin, B. R., Irvine, J. and Isard, P. 1990, Trends in UK government spending on academic and related research: a comparison with FR Germany, France, Japan, the Netherlands and USA, Science and Public Policy 17, 3-13.

20.  Miquel, J. F., Ojasoo, T., Okubo, Y., Paul, A., Doré, J. C. 1995, World science in 18 disciplinary areas: Comparative evaluation of the publication patterns of 48 countries over the period 1981-1992, Scientometrics, 33, 149-167

21.  Glänzel, W., Science in Scandinavia: A Bibliometric Approach, Scientometrics, 48, 2000 121-150 (Correction: Scientometrics, 49, 2000, 357)

22.  Schubert, A., Glänzel, W., Braun, T. 1989 World flash on basic research: Scientometric datafiles. A Comprehensive set of indicators on 2649 journals and 96 countries in all major science fields and subfields, 1981-1985, Scientometrics, 16, 3-478.

 

IV. RESEARCH IN  INDUSTRIES

23.  Frumau, C.C.F. 1992, Choices in R&D and business portfolio in the electronics industry: What the bibliometric data show, Research Policy, 21, 97-124.

24.  Godin, B. 1996, Research and the practice of publication in industries, Research Policy, 25, 587-606.

25.  Grupp, H. 1990, On the supplementary functions of science and technology indicators, Scientometrics, 19, 447-472. 

26.  Hicks, D., Ishizuka, T., Keen, P. and Sweet, S. 1994, Japanese corporations, scientific research and  globalization, Research Policy, 23, 375-384.

27.  Narin, F. and Rozek R.P. 1988, Bibliometric analysis of U.S. pharmaceutical industry research performance, Research Policy, 17, 139-154.

 

V. INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION

28.  deB. Beaver, D., Rosen, R. 1978, Studies in scientific collaboration. Part I. The professional origins of scientific co-authorship, Scientometrics, 1, 65-84

29.  deB. Beaver, D., Rosen, R., 1979, Studies in scientific collaboration. Part II. Scientific co-authorship, research productivity and visibility in the French elite, Scientometrics, 1, 133-149

30.  Braun, T., Gómez, Isabel, Méndez, Aida, Schubert, A.1992, World flash on basic research: International co‑authorship patterns in physics and its subfields, 1981-1985, Scientometrics, 24, 181-200.

31.  Gómez, I., Fernández, M. T. and Méndez, A. 1995, Collaboration patterns of Spanish scientific publications in different research areas and disciplines, In: Proceedings of the Biennial Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ed. by M.E.D. Koenig and A. Bookstein), Learned Inf., Medford, NJ, pp. 187-196.

32.  Hicks, D. and Katz, J.S. 1996, Science policy for a highly collaborative science system, Science and Public Policy, 23, 39-44.

33.  Lewison, G. and Cunningham, P. 1991, Bibliometric studies for the evaluation of trans-national research, Scientometrics, 21, 223-244.

34.  Luukkonen, T., Persson, O., Silvertsen, G. 1992, Understanding patterns of international scientific collaboration, Science, Technology & Human Values, 17, 101‑126

35.  Luukkonen, T., Tijssen, R. J. W., Persson, O., Silvertsen, G. 1993, The measurement of international scientific collaboration, Scientometrics, 28, 15-36.

36.  Moed, H.F., de Bruin, R.E., Nederhof, A.J. and Tijssen, R.J.W. 1991, International scientific co-operation and awareness within the European Community: problems and perspectives, Scientometrics, 21, 291-311.

37.  Narin, F., Stevens, K. and Whitlow, E.S. 1991, Scientific co-operation in Europe and the citation of multinationally authored papers, Scientometrics, 21, 313-323.

38.  Vinkler, P. 1993, Research Contribution, Authorship and Team Cooperativeness. Scientometrics, 26, 213‑230

 

VI. SCIENCE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

39.  Arunachalam, S. and Garg, K. C. 1986, Science on the periphery - a scientometric analysis of science in the ASEAN countries, Journal of Information Science, 12, 105-117.

40.  Arvanitis, R., Gaillard, J. (Eds) 1992, Science Indicators for Developing Countries, ORSTOM, Paris

41.  Gibbs, W.W. 1995, Lost science in the Third World, Scientific American, 273, 76-83.

42.  Moravcsik, M.J. 1985, Applied scientometrics: An assessment methodology for developing countries, Scientometrics, 7, 165-176

43.  Sancho, R. 1992, Misjudgements and shortcomings in the measurement of scientific activities in less developed countries, Scientometrics, 23, 221-233.

44.  Stolte-Heiskanen, V. 1986, Evaluation of scientific performance on the periphery, Science and Public Policy, 13, 83-88.

 

ADDITIONAL RECOMMENDED LITERATURE

45.  Braun, T., Bijdosó, E., Schubert, A., 1987, Literature of analytical chemistry:
a sientometric evaluation,
CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, Florida.

46.  Tijssen, R. J. W. 1992, Cartography of science: scientometric mapping with multi­dimensional scaling techniques. DSWO Press, Leiden University

47.  Noyons, E. C. M. 1999, Bibliometric mapping as a science and research management tool. DSWO Press, Leiden University

48.  Wouters, P. 1999, The citation culture, PhD Thesis, Private edition.

 

SOME ADDITIONAL TEXTS SUGGESTED BY

 Ronald Rousseau:

49.  D. White and K. W. McCain (1989). Bibliometrics. Annual Reviews of Information Science and Technology, 24, 119-186.

50.  Ronald Rousseau and Sandra Rousseau (1993). Informetric distributions: a tutorial review/Les distributions informétriques: un aperçu. Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science/Revue canadienne des sciences de l'information et de bibliothéconomie 18(2), 1993, 51-63.

51.  Rousseau R. (1990). Relations between continuous versions of bibliometric laws. Journal of the American Society of Information Science, 41(3), 1990, 197-203

52.  Dorothy Hertzel (1987). Bibliometrics, history of the development of ideas in: Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, vol.42, supplement 7, p. 144-219.

 

Peter Ingwersen:

53.   Peter Ingwersen. Cognitive perspectives of information retrieval interaction: elements of a cognitive IR theory. Journal of Documentation, 52(1), 1996,pp.3-50.

54.  Eugene Garfield. From citation indexes to infometrics: Is the tail now wagging the dog?. Libri, 48, 1998, pp. 67-80

55.  Finn Hjortgaard Christensen and Peter Ingwersen. Online citation analysis: a methodological approach. Scientometrics, vol.37(1), 1996, pp. 39-62.

56.  Lennart Björneborn and Peter Ingwersen. Perspectives of webometrics. Scientometrics, 2001, 50(1), 65-82.

 

Olle Persson

57.  Borgman CL, Scholarly communication and bibliometrics, Sage, 1990

58.  White, H.D. & McCain, K.W.: Visualizing a discipline. An author co-citation analysis of information science, 1972-1995. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 49 (1998)4, s. 327-355

59.  Persson, Olle: The intellectual base and research fronts of JASIS 1986-1990. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 45(1994)1, s. 31-38

 

Irene Wormell

60.  Irene Wormell. Bibliometric analysis of the Welfare Topic. Scientometrics, 48(2000)2, pp.203-236

61.  Irene Wormell. Critical aspects of the Danish Welfare State - as revealed by issue tracking. Scientometrics, 48(2000)2, pp.237-250..

62.  Irene Wormell. Libri’s Golden Jubilee in a Bibliometric Mirror. Libri, 50(2000), pp.75-84.

63.  Irene Wormell. Informetrics - a new area of quantitative studies. Education for Information, 18(2000)4, pp.131-138 in in: Millennium Issue - Library and Information science education: Past and future challenges. Solicited paper

64.  Irene Wormell. A Bibliometric Analysis of IOLIM Conferences 1977-99. Bibliometric analyses of the value of conferences - Development of methods. Co-author with Helge Clausen, CIS Report 11, Copenhagen, 2001 (forthcoming in: Journal of Information Science, 2001:2.

65.  Irene Wormell. Informetrics and Webometrics for measuring impact, visibility and connectivity in science, politics and business. Competitive Intelligence Review, 2001:2. In Press.

66.  Irene Wormell. Informetric analysis of the international impact of scientific journals: how "international" are the international journals? Journal of Documentation, 54(1998) 584-605.