Personal Citation Index

[Garfield, Eugene]

Dear friends: I did not see this message when I responded a few minutes ago
to Michel Menou and see that our good friend Ron Rousseau is the one who has
made the assumption about 50%.  I can see that this is a wild guess based
upon some anecdotal perception of how much literature is covered by
traditional abstracting and indexing services and what "may" appear in the
non-indexed literature and in web sites.

Since my valiant assistant traces references to my name on web sites I
receive a list every week or two of about a dozen sites. Most of these are
not true citations but rather mentions of my name for one reason or another
as e.g. in a course listing.

I agree with Ron and the others that it would be important for each
individual to be aware of who is using their work, but don't get your hopes
up too high. Gene

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-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Archambault [mailto:Eric.Archambault at VIDEOTRON.CA]
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 10:01 AM
To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU
Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Personal Citation Index


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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