[Fis] Concluding the session

[Krassimir Markov]

Dear Pedro and FIS Colleagues,
First of all, I would like to apologize for my occasional participation,
but I am very busy with organizational work, which I hope will decrease by
the end of the month.
Regarding the cited article (Rebooting the Attention Machine), I think it
would be interesting to recall an aphorism of the Bulgarian academician
Azaria Polikarov. He said:

"The greatest invention of mankind is the radio with an off button!"

In an article that I published about ten years ago (2013), I noted the
following:

In 1991, David A. Pendlebury of the Philadelphia-based Institute for
Scientific Information had published the startling conclusion that
55% of the papers published in journals covered by ISI's citation database
did not receive a single citation in the 5 years after they were published
[Hamilton, 1991].
In his further publication, Pendlebury gave more concrete data. He had
written [Pendlebury, 1991]:
"The figures -- 47.4% un-cited for the sciences, 74.7% for the social
sciences, and 98.0% for the arts and humanities -- are indeed correct.
These statistics represent every type of article that appears in journals
indexed by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) in its Science
Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities
Citation Index. The journals' ISI indexes contain not only articles,
reviews, and notes, but also meeting abstracts, editorials, obituaries,
letters like this one, and other marginalia, which one might expect to be
largely un-cited.
In 1984, about 27% of the items indexed in the Science Citation Index were
such marginalia. The comparable figures for the social sciences and arts
and humanities were 48% and 69%, respectively.
If one analyzes the data more narrowly and examines the extent of un-cited
articles alone, the figures shrink, some more than others: 22.4% of 1984
science articles remained un-cited by the end of 1988, as did 48.0% of
social sciences articles and 93.1% of articles in arts and humanities
journals.

Now the situation is probably even more disappointing.

I will stop here. but we could discuss these problems more broadly in the
fall.

With respect,
Krassimir

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