Title Mentions Research Articles

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Comparison of Journal Usage in Rural Sociology Dissertations Using Text Analysis and CD Rank

Our study compares journal citations from dissertations granted at three universities (Penn State, Cornell, and Auburn) using a novel bibliometric approach: text mining. We first tested the validity of text mining as a method for collecting journal title mentions by comparing text mining results with human-tallied results on a set of dissertations. We then text mined a group of dissertations using a preexisting list of journal titles in order to count journal title mentions in combination with the number of dissertations citing each title. The combination of journal title mentions and number of citing dissertations created a ranking for comparison across institutions. Our study presents text mining as a reliable and less time-intensive option for certain types of bibliometric analyses and also shows the utility of a ranked score approach (CD rank) for making cross-institutional citation comparisons.

Tibetan Sacred Dances

Entering the world of Tibetan spirituality, we observe a multitude of rituals that involve movement and music, used by the monks for various therapeutic and ritualic purposes. The history of Tibetan dance – the Cham tradition - runs in parallel with the history of Buddhism on this territory. Information on these rituals and dances is found in very few Tibetan documents, almost none in European works, and recently in several works printed in English. This can be explained by their oral transmission in special schools, as well as in secret initiations. As the title mentions, in this article, we will discuss the sacred dances of the Tibetans and not the folk ones. Thus, in the following pages, we will mention some of the dances practiced within the sacred rituals by Tibetan monks.

Linked title mentions: a new automated link search candidate

Many webometric studies have used hyperlinks to investigate links to or between specific collections of websites to estimate their impact or identify connectivity patterns. Whilst major commercial search engines have previously been used to identify hyperlinks for these purposes, their hyperlink search facilities have now been shut down. In response, a range of alternative sources of link data have been suggested, but all have limitations. This article introduces a new type of link that can be identified from commercial search engines, linked title mentions. These can be found by querying title mentions in a search engine and then removing those not associated with a relevant hyperlink. Results of a proof of concept test on 51 U.S. library and information science schools and four other sets of schools suggest that linked title mentions may tend to give better results than title mentions in some cases when used for site inlinks but may not always be an improvement on URL citations. For links between or co-inlinks to specified pairs of academic websites, linked title mentions do not generally provide an improvement over title mentions, but they do over URL citations in some cases. Linked title mentions may also be useful for sets of non-academic websites when the alternatives give too few or misleading results.

Are web mentions accurate substitutes for inlinks for Spanish universities?

Purpose – Title and URL mentions have recently been proposed as web visibility indicators instead of inlink counts. The objective of this study is to determine the accuracy of these alternative web mention indicators in the Spanish academic system, taking into account their complexity (multi-domains) and diversity (different official languages). Design/methodology/approach – Inlinks, title and URL mentions from 76 Spanish universities were manually extracted from the main search engines (Google, Google Scholar, Yahoo!, Bing and Exalead). Several statistical methods, such as correlation, difference tests and regression models, were used. Findings – Web mentions, despite some limitations, can be used as substitutes for inlinks in the Spanish academic system, although these indicators are more likely to be influenced by the environment (language, web domain policy, etc.) than inlinks. Research limitations/implications – Title mentions provide unstable results caused by the multiple name variants which an institution can present (such as acronyms and other language versions). URL mentions are more stable, but they may present atypical points due to some shortcomings, the effect of which is that URL mentions do not have the same meaning as inlinks. Practical implications – Web mentions should be used with caution and after a cleaning-up process. Moreover, these counts do not necessarily signify connectivity, so their use in global web analysis should be limited. Originality/value – Web mentions have previously been used in some specific academic systems (US, UK and China), but this study analyses, in depth and for the first time, an entire non-English speaking European country (Spain), with complex academic web behaviour, which helps to better explain previous web mention results.

Routine pre‐operative echocardiography for detection of aortic stenosis?

I read the recent article by Loxdale et al. [1] with interest and commend them for their study into the use of pre-operative echocardiography to detect aortic stenosis (AS). I wish to raise some methodological points for discussion. Firstly, it is surprising that the authors considered aortic sclerosis and mild AS as a single condition. Aortic sclerosis implies that the valve is calcified (i.e. sclerotic) but not obstructing blood flow (i.e. not stenotic). International consensus guidelines distinguish aortic sclerosis as having a peak velocity of <2.5 m.s and mild AS as 2.5– 3.0 m.s [2]. Secondly, although the authors state that 31% of patients with aortic sclerosis or AS did not have an audible murmur, it should also be noted that 7 ⁄ 8 (88%) of patients with severe AS and 16 ⁄ 24 (67%) patients with moderate AS did have audible murmurs (total 23 ⁄ 32, 72%). Mild AS is not of haemodynamic concern and is unlikely to alter significantly the anaesthetic management of most patients. However, moderate or severe AS is functionally important and the majority of cases are detectable clinically; it is noted that only one patient with severe AS did not have an audible murmur. It is surprising that 1 ⁄ 3 patients with moderate AS apparently did not have an audible murmur. Only two of these had severe left ventricular impairment, suggesting that in the majority (with normal stroke volume), a murmur should have been audible. Finally, although their title mentions the ‘role’ of echocardiography, the authors do not discuss how their results should be integrated into clinical practice or, if inconclusive, how their results could inform the design of future studies to determine the role of echocardiography. Their findings do not support routine use of echocardiography in all such patients, especially as in many centres a dedicated daily service may not be feasible and surgery in this cohort should not be delayed. There remains a clear role for careful cardiac auscultation and examination and, whilst Loxdale et al. [1] should be congratulated for their efforts, their results do not imply that restricting echocardiography to those patients with audible murmurs is a practice that should be changed.

Link and co‐inlink network diagrams with URL citations or title mentions

Webometric network analyses have been used to map the connectivity of groups of websites to identify clusters, important sites or overall structure. Such analyses have mainly been based upon hyperlink counts, the number of hyperlinks between a pair of websites, although some have used title mentions or URL citations instead. The ability to automatically gather hyperlink counts from Yahoo! ceased in April 2011 and the ability to manually gather such counts was due to cease by early 2012, creating a need for alternatives. This article assesses URL citations and title mentions as possible replacements for hyperlinks in both binary and weighted direct link and co‐inlink network diagrams. It also assesses three different types of data for the network connections: hit count estimates, counts of matching URLs, and filtered counts of matching URLs. Results from analyses of U.S. library and information science departments and U.K. universities give evidence that metrics based upon URLs or titles can be appropriate replacements for metrics based upon hyperlinks for both binary and weighted networks, although filtered counts of matching URLs are necessary to give the best results for co‐title mention and co‐URL citation network diagrams.

A comparison of methods for collecting web citation data for academic organizations

AbstractThe primary webometric method for estimating the online impact of an organization is to count links to its website. Link counts have been available from commercial search engines for over a decade but this was set to end by early 2012 and so a replacement is needed. This article compares link counts to two alternative methods: URL citations and organization title mentions. New variations of these methods are also introduced. The three methods are compared against each other using Yahoo!. Two of the three methods (URL citations and organization title mentions) are also compared against each other using Bing. Evidence from a case study of 131 UK universities and 49 US Library and Information Science (LIS) departments suggests that Bing's Hit Count Estimates (HCEs) for popular title searches are not useful for webometric research but that Yahoo!'s HCEs for all three types of search and Bing's URL citation HCEs seem to be consistent. For exact URL counts the results of all three methods in Yahoo! and both methods in Bing are also consistent. Four types of accuracy factors are also introduced and defined: search engine coverage, search engine retrieval variation, search engine retrieval anomalies, and query polysemy.

The Many Sides of Asymmetry

Right Hand, Left Hand: Origins of Asymmetry in Brains, Bodies, Atoms, and Cultures. Chris McManus. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2002; 432 pp. In an age when popular science books seem to be written about just about anything-there are several currently circulating, for instance, on the topic of coffee, and two on the role of cod in world history-we have here an entry that discusses an apparently idiosyncratic and potentially trivial topic: of various kinds. It is also a book that ranges widely across normal disciplinary boundaries, as suggested by the book's subtitle: The origins of asymmetry in brains, bodies, atoms and cultures. It turns out that or asymmetry can be found in phenomena ranging from the smallest to largest scales of organization. We are told of left-handed sub-atomic particles such as neutrinos, left-handed amino-acids, the left-sided heart, and our lateralized brains, in which language abilities are usually found in the left hemisphere. book's author, Chris McManus, a professor of Psychology and Medical Education at University College London, is someone who admits to a nearly lifelong obsession with this topic. This isn't surprising, since it would take a life-time to acquire the expertise necessary to cover the range of topics so lucidly conveyed in this book. McManus really covers a lot of ground, and the book makes for a fascinating read. One can't help but learn some new things and gain new perspectives. McManus also has a real passion for his subject, making for some lively prose, with fascinating anecdotes. But it was winning a prize for popular science writing in a contest sponsored by a British medical trust that put the idea of writing the book into the author's head. Given that no one but McManus is likely to be expert in all the areas he covers, it's just as well that he deals with each topic presuming little background. But why should anyone really be interested in so arcane a subject as symmetry? Is this book simply something one picks up to flip through, looking for that juicy tidbit to impress listeners at the next cocktail party? Handedness or symmetry, after all, is not something that is regularly advertised in academic job descriptions as an area of expertise, so one need not read this to catch up on some well-recognized area of research. One might wonder, in particular, why should an anthropologist read a volume like this? Much of what the book covers falls into the domains of other sciences like physics and biology. But the book's title mentions asymmetries in culture, and several chapters are devoted to analyzing cultural topics. For example, McManus provides explanations for why some countries drive on the left, and why some scripts move from left to (e.g., English), while others are written in the opposite direction (e.g., Hebrew). These phenomena are basically just social conventions, sometimes acquired by transmission from other groups, so no universal principle is at work here (which is why there are examples of both kinds of rules in each case). But other features of culture and society are not so variable. In fact, there is, McManus argues, a universal symbolic association of with good and left with bad. For example, he provides lists from Aristotle (derived from established by the Pythagoreans) and a variety of cultural groups (such as the Gogo of Tanzania) that can be compiled to produce a compelling world-view based on this simple dichotomy: IMAGE FORMULA7IMAGE FORMULA8 Lots of rituals must go in clock-wise progression as well, McManus notes (just think of passing food around a table). Religions are full of symbolic asymmetries. Bible refers to the right hand of God, for instance. Such universal principles beg for explanation, not just cataloguing, McManus argues. But there is no universal theory of symbolism, and so no way to make sense of this apparently universal tendency to equate handedness with other traits. …

What price information*

Information today may be envisaged as passing through a chain of hands from its point of origin to its point of use: as information originators and users have become more separate in place or time, various types of intermediaries have grown up to fill the gap between them. Online services involve several of the links in the chain and I want to consider the theme of this meeting, Concepts of marketing and pricing online services, from the point of view of one of them in particular, namely the search intermediary or library. This is the point at which many of the final recipients of the information, the end-users, currently meet the chain of information provision; it is where much of the marketing of information is done and where the users form their judgement of the utility of the various means of its provision, and it will probably remain so for some time to come in spite of the current interest in by-passing this link and selling to end-users direct. Although the paper's title mentions only the price of information, it is hardly possible to discuss price without considering also value and costs, since the perceived value of the information received will determine in large part what price the market will bear, while the costs of production and delivery will determine the minimum price which one must charge. I am particularly concerned with those fields which may be loosely lumped together as academic and public library information-science, medicine, the humanities and general. Here we have special problems with perceptions of the value of information and thus its marketing and pricing; in this paper I shall briefly consider these and the ways in which closer cooperation between libraries and the providers of the services we are selling may help to solve some of them.

The Treatment of Venous Disorders

To create this unusual book, 30 authors from 12 countries submitted 27 chapters on venous diseases, primarily of the lower extremity. The title mentions treatment, but some sections are devoted appropriately to etiology, anatomy, and diagnosis. As one would expect, an arrangement involving contributions from a variety of authors causes overlap in subject matter. But, as done here, it is by no means objectionable and this is what makes the book unusual. The reader learns something important from knowing that the attitudes and practices of different countries really address themselves to similar pathologic concepts. For instance, although the various tests for venous incompetence of the lower extremity are performed differently by different persons, they all simply attempt to give numerical expression to the Perthes test for competence of the "venous heart." Many more varied assessments of blood pressure and flow have been developed than I had been aware of. Venography