Personal Citation Index

[Eric Archambault]

I fully agree with Ronald.

Eric


>Personal Citation Index
>
>Since 'always' I have been trying to collect citations to my works
>(just out of
>personal curiosity).
>
>If everyone did this and results were put together, this could give an idea
>about the real coverage of the Web of Science. My guess is that it
>is certainly
>less than 50% of all citations.
>
>Such studies would show which types of articles end up in books (more than in
>published articles), or on webpages (more than in published articles). Which
>ones are popular among students (ending up in master's theses, or homeworks
>published on the Internet). The possibilities for comparisons and
>investigations are immense. I guess no one (in the West) knows how often he or
>she is cited in local Russian, Japanese or Chinese articles or books.
>
>At the moment data collection for 'personal citations' can only be done on a
>personal basis (but groups of persons can look out for each other's citations,
>especially in printed-only works). I hope that in the future, this kind of
>investigations will be much easier ('everything' becoming electronic). It
>certainly is one of the promises of the semantic web.
>
>Ronald Rousseau
>Belgium