The Productivity of Geographical Authors: A Case Study From Nigeria

Aiyepeku, Wilson O.

doi:10.1108/eb026617

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“…For example, the first programmatic statement of a need for a sociology of sport was a short t 1 The author gratefully acknowledges the assistance of Ms. Susan Chang and Ms. Gwen Wheeler and the services of SIRLS in collecting data for this paper; and article by Kenyon and Loy titled ''Toward a Sociology of Sport&dquo; which was published in the spring of 1965. Four years later Loy and Kenyon (1969) edited the first reader on the sociology of sport under the title Sport.…”

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confidence: 97%

An Exploratory Analysis of the Scholarly Productivity of North American Based Sport Sociologists

Loy¹

1979

International Review of Sport Sociology

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This study identified 100 North American based authors who have contributed 658 publications to the sociology of sport literature during the past decade. An analysis of the productivity patterns of these authors produced a perfect Bradford Distribution comprising ten core authors having fifteen or more publications each and accounting for over forty percent of all published work surveyed.In conclusion, findings of this study: 1. Provide insight into the emergence and development of sport sociology in North America, and raise several implications regarding its future growth, especially with respect to the problem of adequate critical mass. 2. Suggest that the literature related to the sociology of sport in North America provides an adequate data set for testing Brookes' formulation of Bradford's Law relating to journal distribution and author productivity.3. Suggest the need, rationale and method for conducting comparative studies of the productivity patterns of authors and periodicals in the speciality of sport sociology in other areas of the world and, 4. Demonstrates the importance of identifying key authors and publications in the sociology of sport for purposes of comprehensive bibliographical searches.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 97%

An Exploratory Analysis of the Scholarly Productivity of North American Based Sport Sociologists

Loy¹

1979

International Review of Sport Sociology

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“…Thus, the published article is the centrepiece of human intellectual superiority and every scientist scrambles to sign an article's byline. Aiyepeku [37] aptly stated 'No matter what editors and publishers add to or subtract from, manuscripts, the published results remain unequivocally the author's contribution to knowledge'. This contribution is, indeed, the bedrock of the significance and momentum of the unprecedented forcefulness with which research papers presently assert their significance in modern science.…”

Section: Global Scholarly Ranking and Original Purpose Of Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cybernating the academe: Centralized scholarly ranking and visibility of scholars in the developing world

Nwagwu

2010

Journal of Information Science

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This article uses a metaphor of social cybernetics to explain the neoliberal science politics manifest in the deployment of information technology to homogenize, centralize and globalize scholarly performance criteria, a development that benefits the developed regions of the world that already have a competitive advantage in the use of the technologies. The international citation indexes collect, organize and analyse skewed proportions of the world’s scholarly publications mainly from the North and make generalizations about the state and structure of global scientific knowledge, thus exerting undue control and discipline on global intellectual discourse. The databases do not accord any deference to the global diversity and complexity in human and other resources. However, autonomous databases that have regional, national and organizational focuses are beginning to emerge, but such an infrastructure is not yet available in Africa and many other developing regions. It is envisaged, however, that the current African Citation Index Project of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa will contribute in bridging this gap.

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“…A bibliometric study such äs that of Aiyepeku (1) in which authors are ranked according to their contributions to a subject will be interpreted differently; individual authors would replace periodical titles. Using the above formulation, Bradford's Law can be applied to rationalize library and documentation work in the following ways:…”

Section: Bradford's Lawmentioning

confidence: 99%