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Several issues concerning informetrics, bibliometrics, scientometrics and webometrics at the beginning of the 21st century are covered: the development of Open Access, the growth in webometrics, the comparison between two new citation databases (Scopus and Google Scholar), the use of new indicators (h-index) in science evaluation, among others. Traditional topics are also reported: history of bibliometrics, citation analysis, impact factor debate, university rankings, and so on. Habibzadeh F, Yadollahie M. Journal weighted impact factor: a proposal. Journal of Informetrics 2008;2(2):164–172. (http://scienceserver.cilea.it/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=17511577&issue=v02i0002&article=164_jwifap&form=fulltext) The authors consider the sole impact factor not adequate enough to measure journal quality. Therefore they propose to improve the calculation of the journal impact factor by taking into account both the number of citations and a factor concerning the prestige of the citing journals relative to the cited journal. This “weighted impact factor” could be a better scientometrics measure of journal quality. Brenner S, Roberts RJ. Save your notes, drafts and printouts: today’s work is tomorrow’s history. Nature 2007;446:725. (www.nature.com/nature/journal/v446/n7137/full/446725a.html) Increasing knowledge in science is making it imperative that we document the history of all discoveries. Historians need all forms of data so as to document the development of today’s innovations and inspire future generations. Fortunately, interest is growing among historians of science and institutional archives in preserving this history. Several institutions in the United States are establishing archival collections related to the history of molecular biology and chemistry. The purpose is to encourage all researchers to preserve their papers and donate them to institutions that are committed to making them freely accessible to scholars. © Copyright 2008 by European Association of Science Editors Top of Page |
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