Citation Indices - Citation Index, Scimago Journal Rank, Scopus, Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index (Paperback)

Chapters: Citation Index, Scimago Journal Rank, Scopus, Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, Islamic World Science Citation Database, Arts and Humanities Citation Index. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: A citation index is an index of citations between publications, allowing the user to easily establish which later documents cite which earlier documents. The first citation indices were legal citators such as Shepard's Citations (1873). In 1960, Eugene Garfield's Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) introduced the first citation index for papers published in academic journals, starting with the Science Citation Index (SCI), and later expanding to produce the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI). The first automated citation indexing was done by CiteSeer in 1997. Other sources for such data include Google Scholar. There are two publishers of general-purpose academic citation indexes, available to libraries by subscription: There are a number of other indexes, more readily available. Some of the notable ones are: Each of these offer an index of citations between publications and a mechanism to establish which documents cite which other documents. They differ widely in cost: the ISI databases and Scopus are subscription databases, the others mentioned are freely available online. While citation indexes were originally designed for information retrieval purposes, they are increasingly used for bibliometrics and other studies involving research evaluation. Citation data is also the basis of the popular journal impact factor. There is a large body of literature on citation analysis, sometimes called scientometrics, a term invented by Vasily Nalimov, or more specifically bibliom...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=42336