Personal Citation Index and ASCA

[Garfield, Eugene]

It seems that we have at last found something controversial to discuss on
this listserv.

Of course Michel has absolutely no evidence that what he says is true in
information science or any other field. In all my forty years of citation
related work I have never seen any evidence or claim like that. I can
imagine that Michel is extrapolating from the number of source journals
covered by ISI, but I will leave it to him to explain his assumption.

As regards the Personal Citation Index I am somewhat dumbfounded. Perhaps
whoever  suggested that excellent idea has never heard of the Personal
Citation Alert that ISI has been providing commercially for 35 years. Every
week I receive a list of the papers covered in ISI that cite my work, among
others. This used to be called ASCA--Automatic Subject Citation Alert.

Since the founding of the Web of Science this is also something you can do
with a personal profiling system.

What is missing is coverage of source books, although it is not widely known
that ISI does cover quite a few monographic series including those published
by and for ASIST. Best wishes. Gene Garfield

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-----Original Message-----
From: Michel J. Menou [mailto:Michel.Menou at wanadoo.fr]
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 4:41 AM
To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU
Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Personal Citation Index


This is a very interesting idea.
Folks in the various ASIS&T SIGs may wish to embark in its implementation.
One requisite is perhaps that those citing notify the person cited. A
request to
do in electronic and other publications might help.
Michel Menou

Tuesday, November 27, 2001, 10:08:21 AM, Ronald Rousseau wrote:

RR> Personal Citation Index

RR> Since 'always' I have been trying to collect citations to my works (just
out of
RR> personal curiosity).

RR> If everyone did this and results were put together, this could give an
idea
RR> about the real coverage of the Web of Science. My guess is that it is
certainly
RR> less than 50% of all citations.
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