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Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Bra�ov • Vol. 2 (51) - 2009 Series 6: Medical Sciences Supplement – Proceeding of The IV th Balkan Congress of History of Medicine ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT OF HISTORY OF MEDICINE’S PUBLICATIONS A. REPANOVICI 1 , L. ROGOZEA 2 , R. MICLAUS 2 Abstract: The impact of publications is an indicator of quality. For measuring the impact of publications usually are used scientometric indicators, and the most common way is to use the internet and the scientometric database Google Scholar. We use a soft-wear Publish and PERISH who can calculate the index for authors. The article is a study about the impact of published books on the history of medicine and analyzed the impact of authors Key words: history of medicine, Hirsh index, Google Scholar, scientometric indicators. 1. The resources to analyse the quotes and to measure the impact factor of publications Publish or Perish – is a soft designed to analyse the quote in the aim of helping scientists in increasing the impact of their research. This software is available no charge on the web page of Prof. Anne Wil HARZING, International Management Specialist in University of Melbourne, Australia (Harzing A.-W., 1997-2009). Willing to reveal the researches influences of the publications not quoted in ISI Journals the best recommendation is the soft Publish and Perish designed to process and analyse the quotes .The soft is using Google Scholar to find the references, quote sources and then analyse them leading to statistics based on the following parameters: � Total number of papers � Total number of quotes � Average number of quotes for one author � Average number of quotes for one publication 1 Faculty of Mechanics, Transilvania University of Bra�ov. 2 Faculty of Medicine, Transilvania University of Bra�ov. � Average number of papers for one author � Average number of quotes in one year � Hirsch Index and linking parameters � Egghe g Index (EGGHE L., 2006 ) � h contemporaneous Index � Age Importance in quote rate � Two variations of individual h index � Analysis of the number of authors for one paper Publish or Perish is designed to individual empower scientists to present their personal experience of researches’ impact in the most advantageous way. Is not recommending being mechanical in academic evaluation. It is highly recommended to consider the following aspects: a) If a teacher has good performance based on publications’ quotes is obvious he has a significant impact in that field of science. The backhand is not valid every time. b) If a teacher has not very good results in his publications’ quotes, one cause can be the lack of impact of his domain of research. Another causes might be linked with a small domain
174 Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Bra�ov • Vol. 2 (51) - 2009 • Series VI he is working in or his publications are in a different language then English (LOTE- Languages Other Than English) or his publications are only books or papers in books. Although from this point of view, Google Scholar has better performance than Web of Science it has no performance in taking quoting from books or books’ chapters. Measuring the quoting in Social Sciences and Humanist Sciences they are underestimated because they are published in LOTE - Language Other Then English and in books’ chapters more than Precise Sciences. Google Scholar provides more quotes than ISI but not in all domains. Both soft are covered Social, Humanist and Engineering sciences with quotes in books, proceedings of conferences and a large amount of journals. Natural Sciences and Health Sciences are well represented in ISI and subsequently Google Scholar cannot provide more quotes. In addition, journals are not generally covering Google Scholar. This is the reason way quoting in this domains can be smaller then in ISI (Harzing A.-W., 2008). As recommendation, Google Scholar can be preferable in the following domains: a) Business, Administration, Finance & Economics; b) Engineering, Computer Science & Mathematics; c) Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities. Better, is recommended to processed this analysis in parallel and comparative with Scopus and Web of Science. Hirsh (Hirsch, 2005) suggests h Index as a criterion to quantify the scientific impact of an author as following: a researcher has h Index for his Np publications if he has at least h quotes for each one and no more than h quotes for each one of the others (Np - h) papers. This new indicator for measuring personal scientific results was quickly considered by informatics’ specialists and bibliometrics’ researchers. In the specific literature (Borgman, 1990) the specialists found approximate 30 publications referral to h Index in one year after Hirsh paper. Also, there were a lot of comments, critics and an evaluation regarding h index and was revealed that H index is less sensitive in the most quoted references in a publications and is dependent of the domain of science. Different variants of Index were designed in the aim to eliminate the disadvantages: m coefficient, h index (Hirsch, 2005), g index (Egghe L., 2006), h index (2) (Kosmulski, 2006), A index (Jin, 2006), R index (Jin B., 2006), AR index (Jin B. L., 2007) and hw index (Egghe L. R., An h-index weighted by citation impact, in press). The most representative and productive score of researchers’ impact is weighted by h index and g index and the papers’ impact is weighted by R index and AR index. To optimise the presented indexes was suggested b index as indicator with two values (suggesting to enclose or to disclose the publications in weighted the author’s productivity) and result of the researcher’s characteristics. B index is based on value comparing of researchers’ indexes. 2. The research in Google Scholar scientometric database. The analyze of history of medicine’s publications A simple request for searching “History of medicine” will arise 2810000 results. The most quoted book is FH Garrison : An introduction to the history of medicine, 1914. This book has 814 quotes.
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