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Citation Impacts of AAG Presidential Addresses

Pages 209-218 | Received 01 Sep 2015, Accepted 01 Apr 2017, Published online: 10 Aug 2017
 

Abstract

The American Association of Geographers (AAG) president's annual address is considered an important statement about how she or he views the state of the discipline or one's research specialties. Building on previous studies on journal and individual impacts, this study measures the impacts of addresses using Google Scholar data and the Web of Science score. Using these data I classify the addresses into three distinct categories: alpha, beta, and gamma. The results reveal wide and substantial differences in Scholar ratings and Web of Science scores. A few have very high ratings, but many more are in the gamma category. Addresses by women and men presidents that promote new fields of study, extend geographic research to interdisciplinary audiences, and encourage the topics and frameworks of existing fields have higher ratings than those that appeal to more specialized audiences.

美国地理学家协会 (AAG) 主席的年度致辞, 是有关她/他如何看待该领域的状态或研究专长的重要声明。本研究根据过去对于期刊影响力与个人影响力的研究, 运用谷歌学术数据和科学网的评分来测量这些致辞的影响。我运用这些数据, 将致词分类成三大特殊范畴: 甲、乙、丙。研究结果揭露出谷歌学术评价与科学网评分中广泛且显着之差异。有一些致词具有相当高的评价, 但更多落于丙的范畴。男性与女性主席提倡新兴研究领域、将地理研究延伸至跨领域的阅听众, 并且鼓励既有领域的主题与架构之致辞, 较诉诸更为专门领域的阅听众的致辞而言, 获得更高的评价。

El discurso anual del presidente de la Asociación Americana de Geógrafos (AAG) se considera como una importante declaración acerca de cómo ven él o ella el estado de la disciplina o las especialidades de investigación que siguen los geógrafos. Edificando a partir de estudios previos relacionados con los impactos individuales o de la revista, este estudio mide los impactos de los discursos usando datos de Google Scholar y el puntaje de la Web of Science. Con el uso de estos datos, clasifico los discursos en tres distintas categorías: alfa, beta y gamma. Los resultados revelan diferencias amplias y sustanciales en los puntajes de Scholar y los de la Web of Science. Unos pocos registran puntajes muy altos, pero muchos más se hallan en la categoría gamma. Los discursos de presidentes femeninos y masculinos que promueven nuevos campos de estudio, que amplían la investigación geográfica a audiencias interdisciplinarias y estimulan los tópicos y enmarcaciones de los campos existentes reciben puntajes más altos que los recibidos por aquellos que se orientan hacia audiencias más especializadas.

Acknowledgments

I want to thank Dick Gilbreath, Retired Director, Gyula Pauer Cartography Laboratory at the University of Kentucky, for preparing the graphics, and Donna Gilbreath for preparing the manuscript for submission.

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Notes on contributors

Stanley D. Brunn

STANLEY D. BRUNN is a retired Professor of Geography at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506. E-mail: [email protected]. His research interests are extensive and include the social, political, and environmental dynamics of human settlements and humankind, innovative time–space cartographies, disciplinary history, the scholarly intersections with the sciences and humanities, and writing geopoetry.

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