Thanks to the roughly two dozen people who responded to the ISWORLD listserv in February and March 2001 with citations and advice on giving good reviews. I also received a number of interesting messages with examples of "what makes a bad review." I found the collective input and discussion both interesting and educational (and hope others did too). I have loosely compiled the responses into two...

A fundamental feature of research papers is how many times they are cited in other articles, i.e. how many later references to them there are. That is the only objective way of evaluation how important or novel a paper's ideas are. With an increasing number of articles available online, it has become possible to find these citations in a more or less automated way. This paper first describes ex...

Two methods for comparing impact factors and citation rates across fields of science are tested against each other using citations to the 3,705 journals in the Science Citation Index 2010 (CD-Rom version of SCI) and the 13 field categories used for the Science and Engineering Indicators of the U.S. National Science Board. We compare (a) normalization by counting citations in proportion to the l...

Two methods for comparing impact factors and citation rates across fields of science are tested against each other using citations to the 3,695 journals in the Science Citation Index 2010 (CDRom version of SCI) and the 11 field categories used for the Science and Engineering Indicators of the US National Science Board. We compare (i) normalization by counting citations in proportion to the leng...

Citations play an essential role in navigating academic literature and following chains of evidence in research. With the growing availability of large digital archives of scientific papers, the automated extraction and analysis of citations is becoming increasingly relevant. However, existing approaches to citation extraction still fall short of the high accuracy required to build more sophist...

The latest advances in research in the field of bibliometrics take into consideration in-text references. The purpose of this paper is to focus on citation contexts that express negational citations and which are relatively rare in articles. Our goal is to automate the extraction of negational citation contexts and to put them in relation to positions in the text progression of articles. After ...

Bornkamm, known for his theological interests, was prevented by death from producing the third volume of what he had begun (earlier than Brecht) as a massive three-volume study of Luther's career. Regarding Brecht's use of source materials, he points out that aside "from insignificant trivialities, every text [in the later volumes of the Weimarer Ausgabe] has been included in this presentation,...