Personal Citation Index

[Wallace C. Koehler]

Ronald et al are right. I too have been collecting citations to my own work for
curiosity's sake (as well as promotion and salary -- unimportant stuff). I am
particularly interested in citations that occur on the Web. Citations on the WWW
open new vistas/horizons/whatever for analysis. For example, I have noted that some
of my stuff appears in reading lists, resource lists, syllabi, and such ...
resources "classic" bibliometrics would not be able to find. I suspect inclusion of
one's work in a syllabus may "rank" higher than a citation in an article for (1)
there are many reasons for article citations, but (2) certainly syllabus citation
is done to train the neophyte.

I know that Olle Persson has begin to look at these kinds of things ... with some
very interesting results...perhaps he could weigh in with some of his observations

wally koehler

Eric Archambault wrote:

> 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

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