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The inclusion of scientific journals in prestigious indexers is often associated with higher citation rates; journals included in such indexers are significantly more acknowledged than those that are not included in them. This phenomenon refers to the Matthew effect on journal citations, according to which journals in exclusive rankings tend to be increasingly cited. This paper shows the opposite: that the inclusion of journals in local indexers ruled by inclusive logic reduces the Matthew effect on journal citations since it enables them to be equally exposed. Thus, we based our arguments on the comparison of 68 Brazilian journals before and after they were indexed in the Scientific Periodicals Electronic Library (Spell), which ranks journals in the Brazilian management field based on local citations. Citation impact indicators and iGini (a new individual inequality analysis measure) were used to show that the inclusion of journals in Spell has probably increased their impact factor and decreased their citation inequality rates. Using a difference-in-differences model with continuous treatment, the results indicated that the effect between ranking and inequality declined after journals were included in Spell. Additional robustness checks through event study models and interrupted time-series analysis for panel data point to a reduction in citation inequality but follow different trajectories for the 2- and 5-year impact. The results indicate that the indexer has reduced the Matthew effect on journal citations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The inclusion of scientific journals in prestigious indexers is often associated with higher citation rates; journals included in such indexers are significantly more acknowledged than those that are not included in them. This phenomenon refers to the Matthew effect on journal citations, according to which journals in exclusive rankings tend to be increasingly cited. This paper shows the opposite: that the inclusion of journals in local indexers ruled by inclusive logic reduces the Matthew effect on journal citations since it enables them to be equally exposed. Thus, we based our arguments on the comparison of 68 Brazilian journals before and after they were indexed in the Scientific Periodicals Electronic Library (Spell), which ranks journals in the Brazilian management field based on local citations. Citation impact indicators and iGini (a new individual inequality analysis measure) were used to show that the inclusion of journals in Spell has probably increased their impact factor and decreased their citation inequality rates. Using a difference-in-differences model with continuous treatment, the results indicated that the effect between ranking and inequality declined after journals were included in Spell. Additional robustness checks through event study models and interrupted time-series analysis for panel data point to a reduction in citation inequality but follow different trajectories for the 2- and 5-year impact. The results indicate that the indexer has reduced the Matthew effect on journal citations.

The author reflects on journal's standards and who are willing to be evaluated and due reflection on the sense of self-importance and potential to contribute to internationalization of periodicals. It mentions process of submission and evaluation of texts, characteristics unavoidable for indexers, to which a statement of good academic practices or code of ethics. It also mentions action of invited or democratized organizers, special editions are made up of researchers.

The text presents the guest articles that were written for this special edition of RAE to commemorate its 60th anniversary, the aim being to reflect on the past, the present and the future of this and of other Brazilian scientific journals in Administration. It starts by presenting the historical role of the journal in constructing Brazilian academia in Administration, and its impact on several generations of researchers in the country. The main problems being faced by RAE are then addressed, as are its future challenges, which may, possibly, be useful for other Brazilian journals in the field of Administration. The conclusion reached is that the reduction in inequality between Brazilian and international journals can be seen as a banner for RAE and other Brazilian journals that can now take advantage of favorable winds, such as the United Nations’s (UN) Sustainable Development Goals, the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) movement, and the potential that accrediting bodies have for evaluating the social impact of institutions and their programs. But relying on these favorable winds to do the job alone would be an illusion; there is a lot of long-term work of leadership ahead.

The text presents the guest articles that were written for this special edition of RAE to commemorate its 60th anniversary, the aim being to reflect on the past, the present and the future of this and of other Brazilian scientific journals in Administration. It starts by presenting the historical role of the journal in constructing Brazilian academia in Administration, and its impact on several generations of researchers in the country. The main problems being faced by RAE are then addressed, as are its future challenges, which may, possibly, be useful for other Brazilian journals in the field of Administration. The conclusion reached is that the reduction in inequality between Brazilian and international journals can be seen as a banner for RAE and other Brazilian journals that can now take advantage of favorable winds, such as the United Nations's (UN) Sustainable Development Goals, the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) movement, and the potential that accrediting bodies have for evaluating the social impact of institutions and their programs. But relying on these favorable winds to do the job alone would be an illusion; there is a lot of long-term work of leadership ahead. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The role of external evaluators of journals play an essential role in identifying young, interdisciplinary, and open access journals as credible.

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Introduction: As MEDLINE indexers tag similar articles as duplicates even when journals have not addressed the duplication(s), we sought to determine the reasons behind the tagged duplications, and if the journals had undertaken or had planned to undertake any actions to address them. Materials and methods: On 16 January 2013, we extracted all tagged duplicate publications (DPs), analysed published notices, and then contacted MEDLINE and editors regarding cases unaddressed by notices. For non-respondents, we compared full text of the articles. We followed up the study for the next 5 years to see if any changes occurred. Results: We found 1011 indexed DPs, which represented 555 possible DP cases (in MEDLINE, both the original and the duplicate are assigned a DP tag). Six cases were excluded as we could not obtain their full text. Additional 190 (35%) cases were incorrectly tagged as DPs. Of 359 actual cases of DPs, 200 (54%) were due to publishers' actions (e.g. identical publications in the same journal), and 159 (46%) due to authors' actions (e.g. article submission to more than one journal). Of the 359 cases, 185 (52%) were addressed by notices, but only 25 (7%) retracted. Following our notifications, MEDLINE corrected 138 (73%) incorrectly tagged cases, and editors retracted 8 articles. Conclusions: Despite clear policies on how to handle DPs, just half (54%) of the DPs in MEDLINE were addressed by journals and only 9% retracted. Publishers, editors, and indexers need to develop and implement standards for better correction of duplicate published records. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The topic maps model was invented to incorporate indexes with emerging technologies. But it goes beyond simply capturing the way indexes are published, and drills to the core of indexing. Michel Biezunski argues that human indexers still have much to offer in the realm of the World Wide Web and beyond, across digitized information repositories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Walter Greulich explores the various ways in which PDFs can be used in the indexing process, offering advice on techniques and suitable PDF programs, and suggests a method which brings indexing with PDFs very close to offering the functionality of embedded indexing. He addresses the needs of both the professional indexer working alone and the team situation where a combination of professional and non-professional indexers work together on a project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

If you want your index to be given intensive scrutiny, give it to a group of indexers to examine. Not sure what the appropriate simile would be: 'put under the microscope' or 'fed to a den of lions'? With a book on indexing, the index would certainly be examined by informed users - indexers! A situation, we all agreed, which would be sure to make any indexer squirm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sometimes indexers need to produce an index that is simply a version of a previous index. It may entail only minor changes to the original, such as deletion or replacement of a few pages or chapters, updating edited entries or splitting it into multiple indexes to match subsections. If for any reason, an indexer needs to get an index back into the indexing software, typing the entries one by one is time-prohibitive. It is much more cost-effective to convert it. The goal of this article is to provide an overview of the conversion process, along with a few 'secrets' for converting the index back into your indexing software. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Term selection is one of the most difficult things indexers do, and one of the least discussed. The author dissects the term selection process by looking at metatopic relevance, literary warrant, audience, terminological meaning and use, chapter titles and bold headings, double-barreled entries, cross-references and double-posting, clumping/splitting, space issues, analysis of complex topics, and substantiveness as a means of teasing out the patterns and pathways of the indexing mindset. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It studies Brazilian open access scientific journals based on the quality criteria not met by failing periodicals in the evaluation of indexers. The research was characterized as quantitative in relation to the procedures used and descriptive regarding the objectives, with data collection through consultation of two databases: Directory of Open Access Scholarly (ROAD) and Regional Information System Online for Scientific Journals Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal (Latindex). The universe was delimited by Brazilian journals extracted from ROAD, later verified in Latindex. As main results, we find that there are 1,128 open access Brazilian scientific journals. As regards their presence in international indexes, it was noticed that 329 titles (29.16%) are covered by one to five indexing services, 7.97% are covered by Web of Science, 22.69% by Scielo and 78.01% by Latindex. Specifically in this index, only 59 journals do not meet the minimum quality criteria, corresponding to 5.23% of the universe of Brazilian scientific journals with open access. Regarding the investigation of the criteria not met, more than half did not adopt continuous content generation (81.36%), indication of submission dates and acceptance of articles (66.10%), and periodicity compliance (50.85%). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gross et al. (2015) have demonstrated that about a quarter of hits would typically be lost to keyword searchers if contemporary academic library catalogs dropped their controlled subject headings. This article reports on an investigation of the search value that subject descriptors and identifiers assigned by professional indexers add to a bibliographic database, namely the Australian Education Index (AEI). First, a similar methodology to that developed by Gross et al. (2015) was applied, with keyword searches representing a range of educational topics run on the AEI database with and without its subject indexing. The results indicated that AEI users would also lose, on average, about a quarter of hits per query. Second, an alternative research design was applied in which an experienced literature searcher was asked to find resources on a set of educational topics on an AEI database stripped of its subject indexing and then asked to search for additional resources on the same topics after the subject indexing had been reinserted. In this study, the proportion of additional resources that would have been lost had it not been for the subject indexing was again found to be about a quarter of the total resources found for each topic, on average. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers suggestions for indexing to librarians, authors and publishers. It states that a general indexer has comparatively little use for author and title entry, which are supposed to be important factors in library cataloging, but should base his work upon subject-entry, and mentions that in preparing an index it should be kept in the mind what and how use of it is to be made when completed. It notes that consistency and uniformity as desirable throughout an index..

The article offers suggestions for dealing with challenges faced in getting an embedded index ready for publication. It states use of the software Microsoft Word and InDesign, which have intrinsic functions to create embedded entries and along with a function that generates the index from the embedded entries, and mentions that Word documents may be imported into InDesign, or other publishing software. It notes the need of review the whole index using tools like UNICODE.

The article offers suggestions to newly qualified indexers for using index editing checklists. It states that the checklists ensure that crucial operations are not omitted and that mistakes previously recognized will never be repeated, and mentions that index editing should amount to about fifty per cent of the time allowed for indexing the whole book. It notes different elements of a checklist, including general good practice, and client-specific conventions.

The article offers information on the Victorian Indexing Club (VIC) or Melbourne Indexers, which has a monthly meeting and features a speaker on a topic of interest to the group. It states that having regular meetings encourages those new to indexing to come along and also welcomes people exploring the possibility of learning how to index. Developing a library, organizing topics and speakers, and meeting structure are cited.

Existing graph-based ranking techniques for keyphrase extraction only consider the connections between words in a document, ignoring the impact of the sentence. Motivated by the fact that a word must be important if it appears in many important sentences, we propose to take full advantage of the reinforcement between words andsentences by melting three kinds of relationships between them. Moreover, a document is grouped with many topics. The extracted keyphrases should be synthetic in the sense that they should deal with all the main topics in a document. Inspired by this, we take topic model into consider. Experimental results show that our approach performs betterthan state-of-the-art keyphrase extraction method on two datasets under three evaluation metrics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In her presentations at the 2016 Joint ASI/ISC Conference in Chicago, Jenny de Wet discussed two key indexing issues and how they are being handled in South Africa: training and professional development of indexers, and quality control of indexes. She makes her case in this article. On indexer training, ASAIB's aim is to ensure that all indexers have the same basic level of training followed up with the possibility of a mentoring system to help them progress to a fully-fledged professional career. In a parallel discussion she also explores how quality control of indexes, so important to the final visual presentation and accuracy of printed book indexes, is handled in South Africa and the help offered by ASAIB. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information about the American Society for Indexing (ASI) and Indexing Society of Canada (ISC)/Science Citation Index (SCI) joint conference held in Chicago, Illinois on June 16-18, 2016 is presented. The event featured training sessions from representatives of different indexing societies and keynote speakers including Larry Sweazy, David Ream, and Mary Newberry. The event also presented the Canadian Ewart-Daveluy Indexing Award and the ASI/EIS Publishing Award for Excellence in Indexing.

This article explores two important topics, granularity and specificity, and why they are important concepts for indexers. Fred Leise also offers a new term for the indexing vocabulary, 'pan-granularity', and discusses a specific methodology for creating pan-granular indexes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mary Newberry and her colleagues describe their team effort to index an oral history project on Mary's neighbourhood, discussing the strategies they developed for making the indexing quick and doable by a number of people, largely volunteer, while maintaining some cohesiveness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pengindeks, tidak hanya mampu membuat indeks sesuai dengan thesaurus yang dipakainya sebagai acuan (standard), tetapi pengindeks harus mampu menganalisis tingkat kemanfaatan hasil olahannya.Menjelang tahun 2000 ini peranan pengindeks tetap eksis, walaupun teknologi informasi semakin berkembang setiap bulannya. Hal ini disebabkan hasil indeks yang telah dibuat dapat mencakup seluruh permasalahan yang ada dalam suatu pangkalan data, dan user sebagai pemakai informasi tidak perlu harus mendeteksi ulang informasi lain yang berhubungan dengan satu topik tertentu (tidak seperti pada foil-text yang selalu ditandai dengan see, see related, atau see also). Upaya untuk menghasilkan indeks yang bermutu harus dilakukan bersamaandengan peningkatan kemampuan sumberdaya manusia yang ada dan membekali pengindeks dengan pendidikan khusus, sehingga pengindeks Indonesia dapat benar-benar matang sesuai dengan standard pengindeks dunia, apakah sebagai pengindeks terakreditasi atau pengindeks terdaftar.

In order to properly anchor anything for a long-lasting future, a solid foundation needs to have been laid. For the zoological portion of biodiversity information, that firm foundation is best exemplified in the works of Charles Davies Sherborn. This man, like others of his ilk, was intimately focused on indexing names. This incredible focus was a lifelong passion for him, and culminated in his 9,500-page Index Animalium of over 400,000 names of animals. This Index represents not only one of the most prodigious efforts in publication by a single man and the single most important reference to names in zoology, but a permanent legacy to the efforts of an indexer that proved to be an inspiration to many. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article has been developed from talks given by Frances S. Lennie at ASI, ANZSI, and SI conferences during 2015. The catalyst was a presentation by Judith Cannon and Jenny Wood ('Empty chair: succession planning for indexers') at the ANZSI ACT/NSW regional conference in August 2014. The adage that indexers never die but simply fade away -- literally or metaphorically -- begs the question about what happens to our ongoing indexes (revision, serial, and cumulative) and the potential impact on clients. A career based on closely built relationships need not be finite: with some forethought it can be extended indefinitely. This article looks at ways to pass the baton gracefully to your successor with minimum disruption to the indexing and publication process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article offers financial tips for indexers who are self-employed, especially those who are new to freelancing. It stresses the importance of having a financial plan for your business and then watching the bottom line. The focus is on keeping track of your business's income and expenses, including invoicing, paying the bills, basic bookkeeping, banking and tax considerations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cheryl Landes, an indexer who specializes in working with new technologies, discusses the ways in which indexing tools and techniques have changed over the years, and suggests, on the basis of her recent experience with clients, that traditional embedded indexing may be becoming a thing of the past. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Surnames, although widely used, are not obligatory in many parts of the world. This communication describes the hurdles and humiliations suffered by Oriental and South Indian authors who do not have a surname. A novel solution to the problem of author surnames is also proposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Do you need to master embedded indexing before your clients ask for it? And what are the pros, cons and practicalities of doing so? Lucie Haskins, who teaches and practices embedded indexing, offers an authoritative overview. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Indexers face ethical dilemmas surprisingly often, as evidenced by conference sessions on ethics and the frequent online discussions about politically correct language, a client's ethics, subcontracting, censorship ... the list goes on. Ethical guidance does exist, but we also need to keep talking about these issues to increase our individual readiness to respond appropriately and to enhance our overall professionalism as a body. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

No business is immune to disasters, and businesses that depend on information technology are particularly vulnerable because of the wide range of problems that can affect them. A disaster or other adverse incident can lead to financial losses and a diminished reputation. Freelance indexers should be concerned about these things. This article discusses the framework that organizations use to assess and reduce their exposure to risk, and applies the underlying principles to the life of freelance work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sylvia Coates takes a look at the CMoS chapter on indexes across the editions, identifying the changes there have been over the years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers suggestions regarding arrangement and cross-referencing in an index. It states that an index should be one and indivisible, and not broken up into several alphabets, and mentions popularity of alphabetical arrangement in publishing. It notes challenges associated with names and words from a foreign language are introduced into an English index, and cites tips for cross-references, which is the selection of appropriate headings in an index.

The article offers information on a conference on indexing organized by Dennis Duncan and held on 22 and 23 June 2017 in the Lecture Hall of the Bodleian Library in Oxford, England . Topics include historical facts related to indexing like indexing by 16th-century scholar Joseph Justus Scaliger; challenges faced in indexing English science books into Chinese; and focusing on political and theological positions while indexing.

This paper arises from the possibility of a theoretical dialogue between the socio-cognitive perspectives of knowledge organization and the Bakhtinian concepts on conscience, "responsible act," "responsive understanding," and polyphony as attitudes that motivate the dialogism that is inherent to language. Those questions allow us to recognize the professional that organizes and represents knowledge as someone who has an intersubjective conscience, a product composed by two axes that are indeed deeply connected: the "self " and the "other." Therefore, the acts of representing and organizing knowledge are deeply affected by external discourses and by internal discourses. Those different discourses come together at the moment of representing the knowledge and act as a response to the dialogues between the external and the internal discourses. As a consequence, the indexing/classification codes, terms or signs assume a dialogical and dynamic representativeness in order to correspond not only to the contents of the documents but also to dialogue with a diverse user community, by the recognition of the alterity/otherness of the social actors and the social situations. Finally, it is important to point out the need of an ethical and democratic attitude of the indexer/classifier, in order to represent the social pluralism and show an equipollence of social voices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Linda Dunn's sources to help you choose an appropriate form of name to use in an index should prove invaluable for indexers working on both large and small projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Name authority control is a system for ensuring standardization in the handling of names in indexes for large and/or continuing publications. Linda Dunn explains how the system works, considers its strengths and drawbacks, outlines how to set up the files needed, and provides sources for indexers to use in compiling an authoritative database of correctly formatted names. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sherrey Quinn, chair of the ANZSI Accreditation Committee, discusses published criteria for evaluating indexes and outlines the Australian and New Zealand experience in evaluating indexes for indexer accreditation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Joan Dearnley draws on her experience as a long-standing indexer of fine art and art history and tutor to discuss the challenges that this sort of indexing imposes and possible solutions, warning that as always in indexing there are no prescriptive answer. It all depends! [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author considers whether the quality of a cookbook is reflected in the quality of its index. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Three experienced ASI indexers discuss with Carol Reed their experience of working with authors and offer tips on how to avoid last-minute surprises. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]