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announcements . Intro to Legal Research on Wednesday Keep track of your searching to document on the search log…for each search instance: what database you use what subject terms you identify what search strings you formulate what results (# and how relevant) if/how you modify your search

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  1. announcements • Intro to Legal Research on Wednesday • Keep track of your searching to document on the search log…for each search instance: • what database you use • what subject terms you identify • what search strings you formulate • what results (# and how relevant) • if/how you modify your search • I’m looing for diverse array of information sources Search template spreadsheet on website

  2. today’s lineup… • How do we measure impact in different contexts/fields? How do we rank people and things? How do we determine expertise? • How do we traditionally look at “impact” in science and academic realms? (bibliometrics and citation analysis) • Are traditional methods of measuring impact changing? If so, how?

  3. how do we rank things & people in terms of impact?

  4. Forbes Most Powerful People • power over lots of people • control large financial resources • powerful in multiple spheres • actively use their power

  5. page rank

  6. How do we traditionally look at “impact” in science and academic realms?

  7. METRICS BIBLIO Books Publications Bibliography Count Measurement Math / Statistical Analysis

  8. Alan Pritchard 1969 Coined the term "bibliometrics" "the application of mathematics and statistical methods to books and other media of communication“ Journal of Documentation (1969) 25(4):348-349

  9. Journal of Mammalogy, Vol. 64, No. 3. (Aug., 1983), pp. 387-396.

  10. CITED CITING

  11. seminal work

  12. co-citation these two articles are likely related • author • institution • topic • country • language • journal

  13. what is citation analysis? • utilizes quantitative analysis and statistics to describe patterns of publication within a given field or body of literature [Write on board: relationships amongst reference lists]

  14. what do you do with citation analysis? • researchers may use bibliometric methods of evaluation to determine the influence of a single writer, for example, or to describe the relationship between two or more writers or works • production and productivity • impact • co-publication patterns • connections between subject areas

  15. useful to you…right now • Articles that cite the article you found may be of similar interest • some databases include info/links (cited in this database) • Google Scholar also offers this feature

  16. useful to you…right now • Articles that cite the article you found may be of similar interest • some databases include info/links (cited in this database) • Google Scholar also offers this feature • If other publications are citing a source, that may lend credence to its importance/impact • useful in evaluating a source

  17. Index of Citations

  18. Institute for Scientific Information Building, Philadelphia Architect: Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Completed 1977 http://www.vsba.com/projects/fla_archive/190.html

  19. JCR

  20. Arts & Humanities Citation Index authors co-cited most often with…WHITMAN-W Author Co-Citation

  21. 80’s

  22. 90’s

  23. 00’s

  24. Science Citation Index

  25. Social Sciences Citation Index

  26. Social Sciences Citation Index

  27. http://library.unc.edu/ >> E-Research by Discipline >> Frequently Used >> Web of Science (ISI) Example: Dr. Aziz Sancar, Nobel Prize in Chemistry

  28. Scholarly communication process Traditional example

  29. Scholarly communication process What’s captured traditionally

  30. How is scholarly communication changing? • Think of scholarly communication as continuous process instead of single product (journal publication). • Capture significant changes/versions of a work. • Include all criticisms and comments about work (all stages). • Support normal scholarly discourse, including authors responses as well as others’ comments. • Add reviewer’s quantitative rating of material to allow better filtering based on absolute quality metric during retrieval. • Add machine (automated) reviews. • Include other forms of information (audio, pictures, video, graphs, datasets, statistics)

  31. Provocative Questions for Discussion • What/why do you(and scholars cite? • What do you infer from a reference list? • Are all citations equal?

  32. points to take away • Cite sources you use • Supports your case/research • Avoid plagiarism • Places your work within scholarly dialogue • Use reference lists to find additional/relevant material • Look for material that cites your source – will be more recent • Web of Science can also be used as a regular lit database

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