Vita 11/95



CURRICULUM VITAE

Katherine W. McCain (610) 565-7140 (Home)

(215) 895-2486 (Office)

33 Long Point Lane Kate.McCain@ischool.drexel.edu

Rose Valley, PA 19063

COURSES TAUGHT: Resources in Science and Technology, Content Representation, Serial Literature, Topics in Information Science (PhD), Research Methods in Library and Information Science, Information Resources and Services, Scholarly & Professional Communication, Information Services (undergraduate); Information Resources and their Use (undergraduate)

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Scholarly Communication, Information Production and Use in the Research Process, Development and Structure of Scientific Specialties, Diffusion of Innovation, Bibliometrics, Evaluation of Information Retrieval Systems

EDUCATION: PhD. 1985. College of Information Studies, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA.

Fields: Scholarly Communication, Management of Information Resources

Dissertation title: Longitudinal Cocited Author Mapping and Intellectual Structure: A Test of Congruence in Two Scientific Literatures.

MS. 1972. Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA

Fields: Invertebrate Zoology, Marine Biology

Thesis Title: Aspects of the Biology of Schizoporella unicornis (Johnson, 1847), an Estuarine Cheilostome Bryozoan.

BS. 1965. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

Major: Zoology

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE:

1995-date Professor College of Information Science & Technology, Drexel University

1989-95 Associate Professor (tenured) College of Information Studies, Drexel University

1986-89 Assistant Professor College of Information Studies, Drexel University.

1985-86 Drexel Fellow College of Information Studies, Drexel University.

1984-85 Lecturer College of Information Studies, Drexel University.

Summer 1983 Lecturer Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Texas, Austin TX.

1982-83 Research Assistant

Summer 1982 Fellowship in Survey Research Funded by PALINET (Pennsylvania Library Network).

1976-1981 Bibliographic Assistant Biology Library, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. Supervisor: J.E. Bobick (then) Coordinator of Departmental Libraries.

1974-1976 Adjunct Lecturer Department of Biological Sciences and Department of Human Services, College of Staten Island, SINY.

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE:

College-level

IST Associate Dean, March, 2002 – Feb. 2007. Programmatic responsibility for MS(LIS)

Director, PhD Program (former title, Doctoral Coordinator 1988 to 1997, 2000-Fall, 2002.

Tenure & Promotion Committees various, 1993 - date.

Other Committees various curriculum committees, COA Self-Study Task Force chair, 2002-03; member, 1988-89, 1996-98.

BMESHS Curriculum Committee. Member [liaison between School of Biomedical Engineering, Sciences, & Health Systems and IST] 1998 - 2000

Calhoun-Coriell Chair Search Committee. 1998 - 2000 Member.

University-level Library Advisory Committee current

Senate Committee on Academic Affairs. 1898-1995, 2004-2006

Faculty Senate. IST representative, Nominations Committee, 2000-2002; IST senator, 1998 - 2000. Member of Faculty Senate Steering Committee

Faculty Academic Advisory Committee. IST Representative, 1996 - 2002..

Bioinformatics Curriculum Development Taskforce , IST representative

NCAA Accreditation Self-Study Committee—Academic Integrity Subcommittee..

Chair, Graduate Academic Committee Chair, 1993-1995..

ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS:

Derek DeSolla Price Medal, 2007

Sigma Xi, 1984, Drexel University Chapter (full member)

Phi Kappa Phi, 1965, Louisiana State University

Drexel University Faculty Development Minigrant, Fall 1986.

Doctoral Forum Finalist, Special Interest Group in Information Science Education,

1985 National Meeting, American Society for Information Science.

Beta Phi Mu Student Research Grant, Summer 1983, Sigma Chapter, Drexel University.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY:

In Submission:

Osareh, F. & KW McCain. 2007. The Structure of Iranian Chemistry Research, 1990-2006: An Author Co-Citation Analysis. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology. In Submission, Aug, 2007.

Publications:

McCain, KW. 2007. Assessing An Author’s Influence Using Time Series Historiographic Mapping: The Oeuvre of Conrad Hal Waddington (1905-1975) Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology. Accepted for publication.

McCain, KW. 2007. Analysing Influence Over Time: An Historiographic Mapping of the Research of Conrad Hal Waddington (1905-1975). Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics. June 25-27. 2007. p. 558-567.

McCain, KW & LJ Salvucci.2006. How influential is Brooks’ Law: A longitudinal citation context analysis of Frederick Brooks ‘The Mythical Man-Month. Journal of Information Science 32 277-295.

McCain, KW, Verner, JM, Hislop, GW, Evanco W, & V. Cole. 2005. The use of bibliometric and knowledge elicitation technqiues to map a knowledge domain: Software Engineering in the 1990s. Scientometrics 65(1):131-144.

McCain, KW & LJ Salvucci. 2005. How influential is Brooks’ Law: A citation context analysis of Frederick Brooks ‘The Mythical Man-Month.” Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics. July 24-29. 2005. p. 327-334.

McCain, KW. 2004. Guest Editorial—a view from information science. [introduction to the Robert Merton memorial issue of Scientometrics] Scientometrics 60(1):12-13 (Guest co-editor of this special issue)

Rasmussen, E, Atkins, HB, Borner, K, & KW McCain. Visualizing Knowledge Domains. 2002. Proceedings of the 65th Annual ASIST Conference Nov, 2002. v.39:476-477

Chen, C, McCain, KW, Boyak, KW, Lin, X & SA Morris. Mapping the Knowledge,” Proceedings of the 65th Annual ASIST Conference Nov, 2002. v.39:511-512.

Chen, C, McCain, KW, White, HD & X Lin. 2002. Mapping Scientometrics (1981-2001) Proceedings of the 65th Annual ASIST Conference Nov, 2002. v.39:25-34.

Atwood, MA, McCain, KW & JC Williams. 2002. How does the design community think about design? in Proceedings of the Converence on Designing Interactive Systems June, 2002 p. 125-132 London UK, ACM.

McCain, KW & RA McCain. 2002. Mapping ‘A Beautiful Mind:’ A comparison of the author cocitation PFNets for John Nash, John Harsanyi, and Reinhard Selten—the three winners of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Economics. Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Conference 39:552-553.

Verner, JM, Evanco, W, McCain, KW, Hislop, GW & V Cole. 2001. The Determinants of Visibility of Software Engineering Researchers. Journal of Systems & Software 59 (1): 99-106.

McCain, KW. 2001. Dr. Belver C. Griffith, Introduction [Belver Griffith memorial issue of Scientometrics] Scientometrics 51(3) 2001. (Guest editor of this special issue)

Goodrum, AA, McCain, KW, Lawrence, S & CL Giles. 2001. Scholarly Publishing in the Internet Age: A Citation Analysis of Computer Science Literature. Information Processing & Management 37:661-675.

White, HD & KW McCain. 2001. In Memory of Belver Griffith. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 51(10): 959-962.

Marion, LS & KW McCain. 2001. Contrasting Views of Software Engineering Journals: Author Cocitation Choices and Indexer Vocabulary Assignments. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 52(4): 297-308.

White, HD & KW McCain. 2000. Rejoinder. Authors of Information Science. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 51(9): 882-883.

McCain, KW. 2000. Sharing Digitized Research-Related Information on the World Wide Web.” Invited paper. JASIS. 51(14):1321-1327.

Verner, JM, Overmyer, SP & KW McCain. 1999. In the 25 years since The Mythical Man Month what have we learned about project management? Information & Software Technology 41(14): 1021-1026.

Morris, TA & KW McCain. 1998. The Structure of Medical Informatics Journal Literature. JAMIA 5(5):448-466.

McCain, KW. 1998. Neural Networks Research in Context: A Longitudinal Journal Cocitation Analysis of an Emerging Interdisciplinary Field. Scientometrics 41(3):389-410.

White, HD & KW McCain. 1997. Visualization of Literatures. Annual Review of Information Science & Technology 32:3-72.

White, HD & KW McCain. 1998. Visualizing a Discipline: An Author Co-citation Analysis of Information Science, 1992-1995 JASIS 49(4):327-355. Received ASIS Best Paper Award, 1998.

McCain, KW. 1997. Bibliometric Tools for Serials Collection Management in Academic Libraries. Advances in Serials Management. 6:105-146.

McCain, KW. 1995. R&D Themes in Information Science: A Preliminary Co-Descriptor Analysis. Proceedings of the Fifth Biennial Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics. Medford, NJ: Learned Information, Inc. pp. 275-282.

McCain, KW. 1995. Mandating Sharing: Journal Policies in the Natural Sciences. Science Communication 16(4): 403-431..

McCain, KW. 1995. Biotechnology in Context: A Database-Filtering Approach to Identifying Core and Productive Non-Core Journals Supporting Multidisciplinary R&D. JASIS 46(4):306-317..

McCain, KW. 1995. The Structure of Biotechnology R&D. Scientometrics 32(2):153-175. 1995

McCain, KW. 1994. Islands in the Stream: Mapping the Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences Literatures. Fisheries 19(10):20-27. 1994

McCain, KW & PJ Whitney. 1994. Contrasting Assessments of Interdisciplinarity in Emerging Specialties: The Case of Neural Networks Research. Knowledge: Creation, Diffusion, Utilization 15(3):285-306.

McCain, KW. 1993. Visible Colleges: The Special Interest Group Co-Membership Structure of ASIS. Proceedings of the 56th annual meeting of the ASIS 30:172-176.

McCain, KW. 1992. Core Journal Networks and Cocitation Maps in the Marine Sciences: Tools for Information Management in Interdisciplinary Research. Proceedings of the 55th annual meeting of the ASIS 29:3-7.

McCain, KW. 1992. Some Determinants of Journal Holding Patterns in Academic Libraries. Library & Information Science Research..14:223-244.

McCain, KW & PJ Whitney. 1991. Interdisciplinarity in Journal Literature. Proceedings of the 54th annual meeting of the ASIS 28:331.

McCain, KW. 1991. Communication, Competition and Secrecy: The Production and Exchange of Research-Related Information in Genetics. Science, Technology & Human Values 16(4):491-516.

McCain, KW. 1991. Core Journal Networks and Cocitation Maps: New Bibliometric Tools for Serials Research and Management. LQ 61(3): 311-336.

McCain, KW. 1991. Mapping Economics through the Journal Literature: An Experiment in Journal Cocitation Analysis. JASIS 42(4): 290-307.

McCain, KW. 1990. Mapping Authors in Intellectual Space: A Technical Overview." JASIS 41(6): 433-443.

McCain, KW. 1990. Mapping Authors in Intellectual Space: Population Genetics in the 1980's," Bibliometrics and Scholarly Communication (Communication Research Compendium Series). C.L. Borgman (Ed) CA: Sage Publications. .p. 194-216.

White, HD & KW McCain. 1989. Bibliometrics. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology. v.24: 119-186..

McCain, KW. 1989. Mapping Authors in Intellectual Space: Population Genetics in the 1980's. Communication Research v.16(5): 667-681.

McCain, KW & K Turner. 1989. Citation Context Analysis and Aging Patterns of Journal Articles in Molecular Genetics. Scientometrics v.17(1-2): 127-163.

McCain, KW. 1989. Descriptor and Citation Retrieval in the Medical Behavioral Science Literature: Retrieval Overlaps and Novelty Distribution. JASIS v.40 (2):110-114.

McCain, KW. 1988. Evaluating Cocited Author Search Performance in a Collaborative Specialty. JASIS v.39 (6):428-431.

McCain, KW, White, HD & BC Griffith. 1987. Comparing Retrieval Performance in Online Databases. Information Processing and Management, v.23:539-553.

McCain, KW. 1987. Citation Patterns in the History of Technology. Library and Information Science Research, v.9:41-59.

McCain, KW. 1986. Cross-Disciplinary Citation Patterns in the History of Technology. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science, 1986 v.23:194-198.

McCain, KW, White, HD & BC Griffith. 1986. Test Retrievals as a Measure of System Performance: MEDLINE and the Medical Behavioral Sciences. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science, 1986 v.23:199-203..

McCain, KW. 1986. The Paper Trails of Scholarship: Mapping the Literature of Genetics. Library Quarterly, 56(3):258-271.

McCain, KW. 1986. Cocited Author Mapping as a Valid Representation of Intellectual Structure. JASIS 37(2):111-122.

Cole, E & KW McCain. 1985. Adoption and Adaptation in the Use of Transaction Processing Systems: The Case of OCLC Software. Information Processing and Management, 21(1):27-34. 1985.

McCain, KW. 1984. Longitudinal Author Cocitation Mapping: the Changing Structure of Macroeconomics. JASIS 35:351-359.

McCain, KW. 1984. Mapping the Intellectual Structure of Macroeconomics. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science, 1984 21:221.

Cole, E & KW McCain. 1983. System and User Views of Productivity: The Case of OCLC Software. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science, 1983 20:184-186.

McCain, KW. 1983. The Author Cocitation Structure of Macroeconomics. Scientometrics, 5:277-289.

McCain, KW & JE Bobick. 1981. Patterns of Journal Use in a Departmental Library: A Citation Analysis. , JASIS 32:257-267.

Ross, JRPP & KW McCain. 1975. Growth Features in the Cheilostome Ectoproct Schizoporella unicornis in Coastal Waters of the Western US and Canada. Northwest Science 49:1-8.

Ross, JRPP & KW McCain. 1974. Annotated Faunal List of Cheilstome Ectoprocta of Washington State, Northwest Science 48:9-16.

Reports:

Aquatic Science and Fisheries Abstracts. User Survey Final report. March 30, 1990. Project funded by US Department of Commerce, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.

Aquatic Science and Fisheries Abstracts. User Survey Interim report. February 20, 1990. Project funded by US Department of Commerce, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.

INFOBANK: An Information System Design for the National Park Service Mid-Atlantic Regional Office Planning and Grants Assistance Division Vol. 1-2 Philadelphia, PA: Drexel University, College of Information Studies, September 1987. With Diana Woodward, et al.

An Information Systems Analysis of the National Park Service, Mid-Atlantic Regional Office, Planning and Grants Assistance Division. Philadelphia, PA: Drexel University, College of Information Studies, December 1986. With Wayne W. Zachary, et al.

Test Retrievals in Five Major Databases Covering the Medical Behavioral Science (MBS) Literature, Final Report. NLM-Drexel MBS Project, Study 2. Philadelphia, PA: Drexel University, College of Information Studies, 1983. NO1-LM-2-3510. With H.D. White et al. PB84-230507.

Online Searchers' Reactions to Database and Vendor Capabilities in the Medical Behavioral Science (MBS), Final Report. NLM-Drexel MBS Project, Study 4. Philadelphia, PA: Drexel University, College of Information Studies, 1983. NO1-LM-2-3510. With M.C. Drott et al. PB84-230523.

Grant Proposals Funded:

Co-PI. IMLS grant-- Developing Faculty in Digital Librarianship for the 21st Century" PI Xia Lin. $992,100. AY 2007-2010.

Co-PI. IMLS grant –Librarians for the 21st Century. “Toward a Model Curriculum for the Management of Digital Information” PI Bob Allen. $597.000. AY 2005-2008.

Co-PI. IMLS grant—Librarians for the 21st Century: “Preparing Faculty in Management of Digital Information (MDI)”. PI Xia Lin. $611, 648 AY 2004-2007

Principal Investigator for Department of Education Title II-B, Library Career Training Programs. $168,000 to fund five continuing and two new full-time PhD fellowships for 1994-1995.

Principal Investigator for Department of Education Title II-B, Library Career Training Programs. $118,000 to fund fourteen full-time PhD fellowships for 1993-1994.

Co-Principal Investigator for Department of Education Title II-B, Library Career Training Programs. $118,000 to fund eight full-time PhD fellowships for 1992-1993.

Reviews:

McCain, KW. 2001. The Web of Knowledge: A Festschrift in honor of Eugene Garfield. Library Quarterly 71(3): 427-429.

McCain, KW. 2000. Electronic Journals as Innovations: A Study of Author and Editor Early Adopters. (review of PhD dissertation) Library & Information Science Research) 22(3)347-350.

McCain, KW. 1997. Dictionary of Bibliometrics: response. JASIS 48(5):480-481.

McCain, KW. 1996. Dictionary of Bibliometrics JASIS 47(90: 716-717.

McCain, KW. 1994. International Librarianship: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Field. Doctoral dissertation by Nonie Janet Bliss, TWU, 1991. Library & Information Science Research 16(2):177-180..

McCain, KW. 1993. Mapping of Science: Foci of Intellectual Interest in Scientific Literature. Library Quarterly 63:230-232.

McCain, KW. 1986. The Awards of Science and Other Essays: Essays of an Information Scientist v.7," Information Processing and Management 22:366-367.

Edited Volumes:

Robert Merton Memorial Issue of Scientometrics 60(1) 2004. (co-edited)

Belver Griffith Memorial Issue of Scientometrics, 51(3) 2001.

Presentations, Posters, and Panels:

McCain, KW. 2007. The Relationship between Influence and Image: Two Views of the Oeuvre of Conrad Hal Waddington using Historiographic Mapping and Author Tri-Citation Image Analysis..Poster. ISSI 11th biennial conference, Madrid, Spain, June 25-27, 2007. [p. 890-891 of proceedings]

McCain, KW. & S Silversstein. 2007. Using Historiographic Mapping to Trace Persistent Highly Visible Research Themes in Medical Informatics. .Poster. ISSI 11th biennial conference, Madrid, Spain, June 25-27, 2007. [p.892-893 of proceedings]

Wania, CE, Atwood, ME & KW McCain. 2006. Mapping the Field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). ASIST Annual Meeting, Austin, TX.

Wania, CE, Atwood, ME & KW McCain. 2006. How do Design and Evaluation Interrelate in Research ACM DIS 2006.

Palankorn, A, McCain, KW & B Allen. 2006. A Tool for Teaching the Indexing of Digital Images. Poster. JCDL 2006 June 12-16;2006 Chapel Hill, NC.

McCain KW & S Silverstein. 2006. Tracing Persistent Highly Visible Research Themes in Medical Informatics. Poster. AMIA Spring Meeting, May 16-18, 2006 Phoenix, AZ

McCain, KW. 2005. Explorations in Bibliometric Historigraphy: The (Re)Emergence of Neural Networks, 1980-1991. Poster. ASIST Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC October 28-Nov 2, 2005.

McCain, KW. 2005. Explorations in Bibliometric Historiography: C.H. Waddington and the Rise of Evolutionary Developmental Biology. Poster. ASIST Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC October 28-Nov 2, 2005.

McCain, KW. 2005. Waddington as Context: A Bibliometric Investigation of the Influence of CH Waddington, 1995-2004. Invited paper, Boston Colloquium for the History and Philosophy of Science—CH Waddington, A Centenary Celebration. 7 October 2005

McCain, KW. 2005. Explorations in Bibliometric Historiograqphy: The (Re)emergence of Neural Networkis, 1980=1991.Poster. ISSI 10th biennial conference, Stockholm, Sweden, July 24-29, 2005.

McCain, KW. 2004. Mapping Science: Using Words, People, Documents, and Journals to Visualize the Intellectual Structure of Scientific Fields.” Villanova University Department of Computing Sciences Seminar, Nov. 2004.

Pajwani, G & KW McCain. 2004. Mapping the ‘Human’ Side of Computing: An Author Cocitation Analysis of the Relationships between Ergonomics, Human-Computer Interaction and Human Factors Research Poster, ASIST Annual Meeting, Nov. 2004

McCain, KW & LJ Salvucci. 2004. A Citation Context Analysis of Frederick P. Brooks’ The Mythical man-Month.Poster, ASIST Annual Meeting, Nov. 2004

Williams, JC, McCain, KW & ME Atwood. 2004. Building Bridges: Human-Computer Interaction and Software Engineering. Poster, ASIST Annual Meeting, Nov. 2004

McCain, KW. 2004. Knowledge Elicitation Methods to Evaluate Author Cocitation Mapping. BIRG Seminar, School of Information Systems, Technology, and Management, University of New South Wales, Australia, September, 2004.

McCain, KW. 2004. Experiments in Algorithmic Historiography. BIRG Seminar, School of Information Systems, Technology, and Management, University of New South Wales, Australia, September, 2004.

McCain, KW, Verner, JM, Hislop, GW, Evanco, W & V Cole. 2003. Combining bibliometric and knowledge elicitation techniques to map a knowledge domain: :Software engineering in the 1990s. Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium on Mapping Knowledge Domains, May 11-13, 2003. Irvine, CA.

McCain, KW & RA McCain. . 2002. Mapping ‘A Beautiful Mind:’ A comparison of the author cocitation PFNets for John Nash, John Harsanyi, and Reinhard Selten—the three winners of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Economics. Poster, ASIST Annual Meeting, 2002.

Rasmussen E, Atkins, HB, Borner, K,& KW McCain. 2002. Visualizing Knowledge Domains. ASIST Annual Meeting, Nov, 2002.

Chen, CM, Boyak, KW, McCain, KW, Lin, X & SA Morris. Mapping the Knowledge. ASIST Annual Meeting, Nov. 2002.

Chen, CM, McCainb, KW, White, HD, & X Lin. 2002. Mapping Scientometrics (1981-2001). ASIST Annual Meeting Nov, 2002.

Atwood, MA, McCain, KW & JC Williams. How does the design community think about design? in Symposium on Designing Interactive Systems 2002 New York, ACM.

McCain, KW, Verner, JM, Hislop, GW, Evanco, W & V Cole 2002. How do software engineers envision their field? A comparison of author cocitation and knowledge elicitation structures. International Sunbelt Social Network Conference XXII, Feb. 14, 2002 New Orleans.

McCain, KW. 2002. Visualizing co-occurrence and profile similarity patterns in fields and literatures.” Doctoral Colloquium, Palmer School of Library & Information Science, Long Island University. Feb. 7, 2002.

McCain, KW. 2001. Visualizing the spread of intellectual influence: A comparison of co-purchase and co-citation networks focusing on Simon’s The Sciences of the Artificial. Poster. ASIS&T annual meeting, Washington, DC. Nov. 2001.

Mccain, KW. 2001. Genomics, Proteomics and Beyond: Meeting the Information needs of Bioinformatics Researchers. [moderator] ASIS&T annual meeting, Washington, DC. Nov. 2001.

McCain, KW. 2000. Innovative Computer-Based medical Knowledge Resources for Primary Care. [panel organizer, moderator] ASIS&T annual meeting, Chicago, IL, Nov. 2000.

McCain, KW. 1999. Changing Publication Patterns in an Electronic Environment. In panel entitled" The Transformation of Scientific Communication: Behavioral and Organizational Determinants.” [presenter, ] ASIS annual meeting, Washington, DC. Nov. 1999.

McCain kw & AA Goodrum. 1999. Indexing Instruction in the College of Information Science & Technology. Spring meeting of the American Society of Indexers, Philadelphia chapter, June 2, 1999

Lin, X, White, HD & KW McCain. 1998. Research on New Interfaces for Information Visualization (panel title) [panel] American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting. October, 1998

McCain, KW. 1997. Exploring Information Visualization: An Overview.” Joint ASIS/SLA Workshop on Visualization. Philadelphia, PA, Nov. 19, 1997.

McCain, KW. 1995. R&D Themes in Information Science: A Preliminary Co-Descriptor Analysis," Fifth Biennial Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics. Rosary College, River Forest, IL. June 7-10, 1995.

McCain, KW. The Present and Future Role of Library Schools," [panel member] NY/NJ and Philadelphia Regional Chapters of MLA. Long Branch, NJ, Sept. 11, 1994.

McCain, KW. 1993. Visible Colleges: The Special Interest Group Co-Membership Structure of ASIS. ASIS annual meeting, Columbus, OH, Oct. 25, 1993

McCain, KW. 1993. The Disparate Journal Literatures of Biotechnology. Session on "Interdisciplinarity in science: Information Needs in Converging Disciplines" sponsored by SIG/STI. ASIS annual meeting, Columbus, OH. Oct. 26, 1993.

McCain, KW. 1993. Islands in the Stream: Mapping the Journal Literature of Fisheries and Marine Sciences. 123rd annual meeting, American Fisheries Society, Portland, OR. Aug 20, 1993.

McCain, KW. 1992. Core Journal Networks and Cocitation Maps in the Marine Sciences: Tools for Information Management in Interdisciplinary Research. ASIS annual meeting, Pittsburgh, PA. Oct. 26, 1992.

McCain, KW. How to Make an Impact in Library & Information Science. [Panelist]. ASIS annual meeting, Pittsburgh, PA. Oct. 27, 1992.

McCain, KW & PJ Whitney. 1991. Is Interdisciplinarity a One-Way Street? A Bibliometric Analysis of Interdisciplinarity in Neural Networks Research. Session on "Understanding Interdisciplinarity" sponsored by SIG/BS, SIG/FIS. ASIS annual meeting, Washington DC, Oct. 29, 1991.

McCain, KW. 1991. Some Determinants of Library Holdings Patterns. ALA ALCTS Serials Research Roundtable, Atlanta, GA, June 29, 1991.

McCain, KW. 1991. Journal Cocitation Analysis: A New Tool for Serials Collection Management. ALA, Forum for Science and Technology Library Research, Atlanta, GA, June 30, 1991.

McCain, KW. 1990. The Paper Trails of Scholarship: Mapping the Literature of Drosophila Genetics. Philadelphia Flyers meeting, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. Friday, Feb. 23, 1990.

McCain, KW. 1989. La Veille Technologique des Entreprises, une approche par les outils bibliométriques. Conferences Publiques du LEREP. Université des Sciences Sociales, Toulouse I. 20 December 1989.

McCain, KW. 1989. Bibliometric Tools for Studying Science: A Brief Overview of Research. Statistics Seminar Series, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France. 18 December 1989.

McCain, KW. 1989. Communication and Competition in the Research Environment. Panel on Research Ethics, Drexel University Ethics Convocation. 17 October 1989.

McCain, KW. 1989. The Production and Exchange of Research-Related Information in Genetics. International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, London, Ontario, Canada. June, 1989.

McCain, KW. 1989. Mapping Authors in Intellectual Space: Population Genetics in the 1980's." International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, London, Ontario, Canada. June, 1989.

McCain, KW. 1988. Student Participation in Governance and Operation: Policies and Practices of the College of Information Studies, Drexel University. Association for Library and Information Science Education, San Antonio, TX. January, 1988.

McCain, KW. 1987. The Communication of Research-Related Information in Genetics. Society for The Social Studies of Science, Worcester, MA. 21 Nov 1987.

McCain, KW. 1986. Cross-Disciplinary Citation Patterns in the History of Technology. American Society for Information Science, Chicago, IL. 30 Sept 1986.

McCain, KW. 1986. Test Retrieval as a Measure of System Performance: MEDLINE and the Medical Behavioral Sciences. American Society for Information Science, Chicago, IL. 30 Sept 1986.

McCain, KW. 1985. Longitudinal Cocited Author Mapping and Intellectual Structure: A Test of Congruence in Two Scientific Literatures. Doctoral Forum, American Society for Information Science, Las Vegas, NV. 23 Oct. 1985.

McCain, KW. 1987. Test Retrievals as a Measure of System Performance: A Study of MEDLINE. Colloquium, College of Information Studies, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA. 7 March 1985.

McCain, KW. 1984. Cocitation and Clustering, PhD Colloquium, School of Communication, Information and Library Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. 6 Dec. 1984.

McCain, KW. 1984. Mapping the Intellectual Structure of Macroeconomics. American Society for Information Science, Philadelphia, PA. 24 Oct. 1984.

McCain, KW. 1983. Mapping the Dynamic Structure of Macroeconomics. Society for the Social Studies of Science, Blacksburg, VA. 4 Nov. 1983.

McCain, KW. 1983. Techniques of Author Cocitation Analysis I: The Structure of Macroeconomics. International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology (IASSIST), Philadelphia, PA 21 March 1983.

White, HW & KW McCain. 1983. Mapping Authors in the Social Sciences. Conference on Science, Technology and Literature, Long Island University, 24 Feb. 1983.

McCain, KW. 1982. The Cognitive Structure of Macroeconomics. Department of Economics Seminar Series, Fordham University, NY. April 1982.

Funded Research and Consulting:

Co-PI Toward a Model Curriculum for the Management of Digital Information using Online Cultural Repositories. (B. Allen, PI). Project funded by IMLS. 2005-2007.

Co-PI Preparing Faculty in Management of Digital Information (X. Lin, PI). Project funded by IMLS. 2004-2006.

Co-PI Primary Health Care Information Project (part of the Development of the National Medical Practice Knowledge Banks project funded by the National Institute for Standards and Technology) 1999-2001.

Principal Investigator. Contract awarded to Drexel University by US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA/NESDIS, National Oceanographic Data Center, to assist in a user study of the subscribers to the Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts. Responsibilities include development of survey instrument, data analysis and report. Time: June 1, 1989 - March. 30, 1990.

Co-Principal Investigator. Contract awarded to Drexel University by the National Park Service, Mid-Atlantic Region, to perform an information systems analysis and to design a new information system for their offices. Phase 1(Jan. 86-August 86) completed. Phase 2 (Sept. 86-March 87) completed. Phase 3 (Oct. 87-Oct. 88) completed.

Workshops taught:

Sci-Tech Resources on the Web. PALINET. Philadelphia, PA June 4, 1998.

Basics of Abstracting (workshop speaker) NFAIS, Philadelphia, PA Nov. 10, 1995.

Introduction to Indexing (workshop speaker). NFAIS, Philadelphia, PA Nov. 5, 1992.

Computer Assisted Bibliometrics. Texas Women's University, Denton, TX. May 18-20, 1992.

IBM Librarian's Advanced Training Course: Advanced Online Searching, Advanced Collection Development. Philadelphia, PA. 18 March - 22 March 1991.

Introduction to Indexing. Digital Equipment Corporation. Marlboro, MA. 14-15 May 1985.

IBM Librarian's Training Course, Level I: Computer Literacy, Reference Services. Philadelphia, PA. 22 April-3 May 1985.

Other Professional Activities:

ASIS activities

Member, Board of Directors, ASIST, Nov 2006 – date

Member, Editorial Board, JASIST 2005 – date

Assembly Representative for Student Chapters, 1996-date

Chair, Student Chapter of the Year Jury, 1996-1999

Member Education Committee, ASIS 1995-1997

SIG Liaison, Technical Program Committee, ASIS Midyear, 1995.

SIG/STI activities: SIG Program Chair/Chair, 1994-1995. Chair, Awards Committee. 1992-1994, 1996-.

SIG/ED Doctoral Forum Chair, 1987-1988, 1988-1989, 1998-1999.

Documentation Abstracts International, Board of Directors. Secretary and ALISE representative 1995-1998

Chair, session on Citation Analysis & Categorisation ISSI 10th biennial conference, Stockholm, Sweden. July 24-29, 2005

Moderator, Session on “Studying Scientific Collaboration. Part 2: Research Papers – Collaboration in Action.” ASIST Annual Meeting, Providence, RI, Nov. 2004.

Co-Presenter: “Indexing Instruction in the College of Information Science & Technology.” with Abby Goodrum. ASI spring meeting, Philadelphia, PA, June, 1999..

Moderator: Session on “Planning Curricula for the Information Professionals of the 21st Century.” ASIS annual meeting, Baltimore, MD, Oct. 1996.

Moderator: Session on "Scientific Collaboratories," sponsored by SIG/STI. ASIS annual meeting, Chicago, IL, Oct. 10, 1995

Moderator: Session on "Sociological Studies." ASIS annual meeting, Pittsburgh, PA. Oct. 28, 1992.

Associate Editor, Scientometrics

Editorial Board member, Science Communication,, JASIS&T, Journal of Informetrics

Organizer and Moderator: "The Pitfalls of Consulting in Academia and the Private Sector: What the Books don't Tell You." Meeting of ASIS-Delaware Valley Chapter, 9 Mar 1988.

Participant: Clustering Workshop, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Manfred Kochen, Organizer. Institute for Scientific Information, Philadelphia, PA Sept. 11-13, 1987.

Moderator: "Science Indicators II," 4S meeting session, Four Societies Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA. 24 Oct. 1986.

Organizer and Chair: "Information as Intellectual Property," SIG/FIS meeting session, American Society for Information Science, Chicago, IL. 2 Oct. 1986.

Faculty Advisor: American Society for Information Science, Drexel Student Chapter

Professional Associations:

American Society for Information Science & Technology, Delaware Valley Chapter

Association for Library and Information Science Education

International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics

Sigma Xi (inactive)

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