Personal Citation Index (fwd)

[Gretchen Whitney]

Perhaps this will prompt some discussion on this list. It's an interesting
concept.  Will it scale up? What if we all do this, and what might be the
end result?
  --gw

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 14:11:26 -0600
From: "Sloan, Bernie" <bernies at UILLINOIS.EDU>
Reply-To: Open Lib/Info Sci Education Forum <JESSE at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU>
To: JESSE at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU
Subject: Personal Citation Index

About a year ago I posted a note calling attention to my "personal
cititation index", asking for comments. This Web page highlights
publications and Web pages I have authored that have been cited in other
books, papers, conference proceedings, LIS course reading lists, and Web
sites. This resource was, and continues to be, very much a work in progress.

I've been playing around wirth the concept again recently, narrowing the
focus to two published papers and a Web-based bibliography. I've written a
short paper that's available at:

http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/~b-sloan/pci2.html

I'd appreciate some feedback on the concept (not necessarily on the paper
itself).  Could the personal citation index become a part of every scholar's
"tool kit", as an attempt to measure the influence of his or her ideas? What
might be a good direction to take for further research? Or is the concept
flawed, and simply an interesting exercise based on one person's idle
curiosity?

By the way, if you are interested in my older, more broadly based personal
citiation index from last year, here it is:

http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/~b-sloan/pci.html

Thanks for any and all comments!

Bernie Sloan
Senior Library Information Systems Consultant
University of Illinois Office for Planning and Budgeting
338 Henry Administration Building
506 S. Wright Street
Urbana, IL  61801
Phone: (217) 333-4895
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E-mail: bernies at uillinois.edu