Computers

  2010 JUL 15 - (VerticalNews.com) -- "We present VOSviewer, a freely available computer program that we have developed for constructing and viewing bibliometric maps. Unlike most computer programs that are used for bibliometric mapping, VOSviewer pays special attention to the graphical representation of bibliometric maps," scientists in Leiden, Netherlands report.

  "The functionality of VOSviewer is especially useful for displaying large bibliometric maps in an easy-to-interpret way. The paper consists of three parts. In the first part, an overview of VOSviewer's functionality for displaying bibliometric maps is provided. In the second part, the technical implementation of specific parts of the program is discussed," wrote N.J. Vaneck and colleagues, Leiden University ...read more

  2010 JUL 8 - (VerticalNews.com) -- "This paper presents an analysis of the structure of computer science research articles published in the Lecture Notes of Computer Science series," scientists in Kuopio, Finland report.

  "While it is clear that most articles start with an Introduction and end with a Conclusion, the structure of text between these two sections is rather diverse. We studied the positions of different section types, and analysed dependencies between them," wrote K. Hypponen and colleagues, University of Kuopio ...read more

  2010 JUN 10 - (VerticalNews.com) -- "In September 2008 Thomson Reuters added to the ISI Web of Science (WOS) the Conference Proceedings Citation Indexes for Science and for the Social Sciences and Humanities. This paper examines how this change affects the publication and citation counts of highly cited computer scientists," investigators in Ramat Gan, Israel report.

  "Computer science is a field where proceedings are a major publication venue. The results show that most of the highly cited publications of the sampled researchers are journal publications, but these highly cited items receive more than 40% of their citations from proceedings papers," wrote J. Barilan and colleagues, Bar Ilan University ...read more